Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...just out of respect to a man of the cloth-but then we noticed that he disappeared immediately, and we soon realized that he was a fifth-column agent . . . . We have observed that the Nazi fifth column is efficiently organized to an unbelievable extent, with the idea of creating panic among civilians, rousing them to evacuate towns in the area where the Nazis want to block the Allied troop movements and the movements of supplies, then strafing the whole lot along the blocked road from their planes, and producing further and more complete blockage of the road by the mass...
Week II of Hitler's war against the West was also week II of a Wall Street panic. Down another eight points went the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials to 114.75. Volume of stocks dumped totaled 10,370,000 shares, against over 17,000,000 shares moved during panic week 1 (TIME, May 27). One reason why the panic slowed down: most shoestring margin accounts, many small, outright holders, were already sold out. Furthermore, bargain hunters held off in the hope that stocks like Bethlehem Steel might soon be given away closer to 40 (when...
...Continued panic, wiping out untold collateral behind all kinds of business & personal loans, would force many a small security holder to drop insurance policies, mortgages, autos, just as though a major depression were getting under...
...Such panic losses are cutting deeply into the capital that will be needed to finance public & private investment for National Defense...
...Deal preferred to keep the market open. Brokers naturally wanted to continue pocketing commissions on two-and-three-million-share days. Administration skeptics discounted the small investors' pleas because a suspicious number had been telephone calls from women using the same patter, apparently instructed by panic-provokers. In addition they argued...