Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...afternoon last week in Washington, tremulous, treble voices poured into a midget microphone and around the world. Forty-one children of foreign diplomats, attending a Christmas party in the Hall of Nations at the Washington Hotel, joined in the annual broadcast. A few of these diplo-moppets were panic-stricken, but most stepped up with little prompting and rattled off their Christmas pieces, twice-once in their native tongue, once in English...
...cover of storm and night four Nazi freighters quietly slipped their moorings, headed out into the Gulf of Mexico. As the shore line dropped astern a signal flare cut the darkness ahead, then another. To the nervous Nazis that meant British warships. The Phrygia's captain, in a panic, scuttled his ship. The other three swung frantically about, stampeded back to port...
...Japanese entrance into the Axis was designed to draw U. S. attention away from the Atlantic, panic the U. S. into reducing aid to Britain. It failed...
Died. Gates W. ("Silent Gates") McGarrah, 77, massive, granite-jawed financier of the old school, once chairman of the great Chase Bank's executive committee, first president of the Basel Bank of International Settlements, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the panic of '29; in Manhattan...
Tiffany has spent more than a century making its stamp the most upstage of all U. S. trade names. In the panic of 1837, 25-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his store in downtown Manhattan, sold $4.98 worth of goods in the first three days. A dozen years later, the firm (then Tiffany, Young & Ellis) startled rival jewelers by purchasing $100,000 worth of royal Hungarian diamonds, began gathering éclat. Still later it bought the 128½-carat canary Tiffany diamond. Big as a man's fist, priceless, the stone is exhibited on state occasions, like...