Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Gardiner last year conquered Broadway by imitating-with a few simple but compelling gestures, an appropriate word or sound and the expression of his amazingly mobile face-such improbable objects as a French train, a dirigible, ugly wall paper. To these sensitively communicated ideographs, Mimic Gardiner has now added a lighthouse (by revolving his body and then suddenly opening his eyes and mouth very wide and hissing slightly when he faces the audience) and a buoy (by crouching, wobbling drunkenly, looking seasick and giving off a bilious bell sound...
Certainteed is the third largest U. S. manufacturer and distributor of gypsum products, chief of which are ordinary wall plaster and wallboard. Its name was derived in 1917 from a trade-mark for the asphalt roofing which was its original product and is still its mainstay. Its weakness was a result of boomtime expansion which culminated in the purchase of Beaver Products, makers of Beaver Board and "Bestwall," original gypsum wallboard, in 1928. To acquire Beaver Products the company had to issue $13,500,000 in bonds, thus simultaneously gearing up productive capacity and enormously in creasing its burden...
This statement safe & sane though it might sound to most laymen, caused many an old eyebrow to rise in Wall Street last week. For one of the New York Stock Exchange's oldest and most honored traditions is official silence on the state of the market. And the speaker was forthright Charles Richard Gay, the Exchange's "New Deal" president, talking to an Associated Press reporter...
...much the plain fact that just because a stock is selling at a low price is no guarantee it is cheap. A stock can be selling as low as $2 and still be the dearest security in the country. Make no mistake about it: the right-minded people in Wall Street don't want to see the public rushing into securities without first finding out what they're buying." Setting a new high in Stock Exchange frankness, President Gay continued: "We have a number of Federal rules and regulations, set up to protect the security buyer by making...
Before adjourning the hearings until after the turn of the year, Senator Wheeler summoned Morgan Partner George Whitney to explain a loan made to MOP by the big banking house at No. 23 Wall Street. At the time RFC was being organized, MOP needed $1,500,000 to tide it over an interest date, and the House of Morgan, already a large MOP creditor, furnished the money on condition that it would be repaid promptly from the road's RFC borrowings...