Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should have been collected on them. The smugglers swagger about with pistols in their belts, and the Imperial Japanese Government has demanded with success that these "dangerous weapons" be not carried by Chinese customs guards at the frontier posts most convenient for smuggling, such as Shanhaikwan on the Great Wall...
...Jefferson City, Mo., after tunneling 140 ft. under the penitentiary walls for 64 days while two fellow convicts smuggled food and water to him, Prisoner Fred Turner, 22, broke through the wall into the arms of a guard who had been waiting there for him a fortnight...
...record of Cleveland's Dr. Thomas H. B. Staggers who had balanced 4,200 matches on the mouth of a beer bottle. "Joker" White successfully stacked up a record 5,400, announced modestly: "I just built 'em up like I'd put up a brick wall...
Motor Products Corp. was founded in 1916 during Wall Street's first big boom in motor shares-a merger of five small accessory companies. After profits in excess of $2,000,000 in 1928 and 1929, Motor Products' income dropped rapidly to a $518,000 deficit in 1932. By 1934 the company was back in the black and last year's profits were $1,079,000. President of Motor Products since 1935 has been Antone Lyman Lott, 50, whose service with the company dates to its founding. A graduate of the University of Nebraska (Class...
...Both walls are symbolic of the constructive and destructive forces of society. The north wall represents the struggle between creative science and matrial greed. The east wall depicts the struggle between creative culture and the brutal impulses of man. To make the allegory more vivid, the artist has used many modern war accessories...