Word: qualm
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...qualm or chilly premonitions visited the President last week, he gave no sign. Gone were the pallor and nervousness of last spring. He was ruddy, calm, self-confident. Some of his intimates whispered that even when he is alone, at night, in the history-haunted White House, even then Franklin Roosevelt feels not so much as a tingle of worry over the morrow...
Imports. U. S. importers from Japan were less complacent about last week's crisis. Most fearful were silk and hosiery mills. Their $100,000,000-a-year purchases from Japan survived the silk-stocking boycott of 1938 without a qualm. But the possibility of war was something else. For three weeks the mills have been laying in all the silk they could get. Last week they pushed the price (for future delivery) up 22? to $2.82½ a lb. U. S. Silk Importer Paolino Gerli called it "hysteria." He also forecast that by the end of November. U.S. silk...