Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis and friends piled into a car and rolled north on Lenox Avenue to address another gathering. An aroused, noisy crowd, some carrying torches, formed behind two blaring sound trucks and marched along Lenox after them. Ten policemen, who had let the parade form, got to worrying about possible trouble, and ordered the parade to halt for lack of a permit. One of the sound trucks broke into a menacing roar: "We will not be stopped by blue-coated fascists." Onlookers could not agree on what happened next, but the Ben Davis victory parade suddenly degenerated into a near-riot...
From a distance it looked like a dull campaign between two dignified, successful and high-minded men. But in New York State's special election for a vacated seat in the U.S. Senate there was the sound of drums. The most emphatic thumps came from the Republican camp. There, looking worried and work-worn, stood John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, an ex-Wall Street lawyer and an eminent internationalist. He was doing something not to be expected of a Republican candidate of New York...
Superintendent Thomas Ragland of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. plant at South Charleston, who had played host to Modarelli when he was trying to get "a feel" for the industrial section of Saga, beamed at the sound effects of whirring machines and the tripping of interrupter switches. "Precisely as they are heard in the plant," said...
Despite the whopping Kaiser debts to the U.S., RFC Chairman Harley Hise, a onetime California banker and minor Democratic politician, regarded the $44.4 million loans as "sound banking" action. Hise thought that there was "more than a reasonable chance that K-F can succeed...
...last sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market rallied. It looked as if the Morgan "miracle" had staved off disaster. "Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon, "is fundamentally sound." The Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres said there had been a security panic, with no economic basis. Banker Lament pronounced it only "a little distress selling." The National City Bank's Charles E. Mitchell saw "nothing fundamentally wrong with the stock market...