Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Princeton project (directed by Drs. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Frank Stanton and Hadley Cantril) had been studying radio on Rockefeller money for about a year when the Halloween panic popped practically in Nassau Hall. With a special grant of $3,000 from the Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Cantril and associates went after known survivors of the Sunday nightmare with a questionnaire many times as nosy as a census blank. In addition to straightforward questions about the incident, the project's interviewers asked people about Mars, rocketships, religion, superstitions, job security, education, year and make of car, the Czech crisis...
...series of rocket-machines once fictionally landed, loosing battalions of huge extra-terrestrial monsters. For those interested in 1) owning a copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic is on, The Invasion from Mars,* provides a lively, sympathetic anatomizing of the Wells-Welles ruckus by Psychologist Hadley Cantril and a special staff of Princeton's Radio Research Project...
...Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium show called "How the World Will End&"-following a news broadcast, with no mention of Jack Benny. Result: a minor panic in the City of Brotherly Love, jammed switchboards, perspiring cops, an editorial rebuke from the Philadelphia Inquirer. * Princeton University Press...
...tons a year from Germany, 6,000,000 tons of which go by barge down the Rhine to Rotterdam, thence by sea to Italy. Hauling the remaining 4,000,000 tons by train over the Alps was expensive in peacetime, is practically impossible in wartime. In sudden panic, the Ministry of Corporations in Rome removed 84 trains from service, limited industries to 80% of the coal they used last year, provided coal coupons for individuals but permitted hotels with foreign tourists to burn slightly above the ration...
Through the red flare of the Tragic Era, while Andrew Johnson was being laid on the cross and Philadelphian Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, was riding to ruin in the panic of 1873, J. P. Morgan walked cool and incisive, supremely confident of the future of America. At 32 he whipped Dan Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall...