Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jefferson Coolidge resigned because he disliked the New Deal's mounting debts, the job of Under Secretary of the Treasury had been vacant. Last week, giving up futile efforts to find for the job an expert in the technique of floating Government bonds who had no connection with Wall Street, the President sent to the Senate the name Roswell Foster Magill. Not a bond expert but a tax expert...
...State its name went hog wild, first broke all records established in the 1913 flood, then proceeded to top the even more disastrous inundations of 1884. Full of foam, mud and debris, the Scioto River swept down on Portsmouth, which seven years ago threw up a $750,000 sea wall of steel & concrete to keep the Scioto and Ohio away from its doors. Last year to the 62-ft. wall was added a supplementing levee of sandbags and Portsmouth stayed dry. This year the flood was not to be cheated...
Communist whose ashes lie buried by the Kremlin Wall with those of other Red heroes) and because Moscow thought he would turn out to be a Real Red, which he didn...
...make some informal agreement with Europe whereby some of the European earnings from investment here will be applied to settle the war-debt account. At present European governments, for various purposes, are anxious to tap the abundant reserves of American capital and seek new loans from Washington and Wall Street...
...Wall Streeters and LaSalle Streeters, even these smaller, faster spot price indices are not sensitive enough to catch the pulse of trading floors. Dow-Jones puts out a daily index of eleven commodity futures, all except three of which are farm products. This index was at 57.22 on Dec. 31, 1935, at 80.03 a year later...