Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Three weeks ago something akin t panic spread through Sun Life's Montreal citadel ("Largest office building in th British Empire"). Montreal's financial district in St. James Street buzzed with rumors that the Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last...
...busboy the day he arrived in Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan on the wintry eve of a Wall Street panic, catered to "Diamond Jim" Brady, Generals Grant and Sherman, various Presidents and kings. Until he retired in 1943, he managed to keep dinner at the Waldorf a fastidious, expensive ritual despite Prohibition, the rise of the sandwich, and shortages brought on by wars...
...Panic in the Streets. Director Elia Kazan's realistic thriller about a New Orleans manhunt for a criminal who is also a plague-carrier; with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas (TIME...
...Panic in the Streets. Director Elia Kazan's realistic thriller about a New Orleans manhunt for a criminal who is also a plague-carrier; with Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas (TIME...
With Coak held incommunicado, panic-stricken Crimeds were again at a loss to find a prognosticator for tomorrow's game. They have just 24 hours left...