Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This excellent conduit consists essentially of two copper tubes with copper wires running through the centre of each, the whole sheathed in lead. The current travels on the inside wall of the tubes, the outside skin of the wires. Whereas ordinary telephone trunk lines have booster stations at least every 50 miles, serviced by human attendants, the coaxial cable has automatic booster stations every ten miles, accessible through manholes if repairs are needed...
Brokerage offices were thrown into excited confusion. So besieged by questioners were the ticker services that their telephone operators could only answer : "Hold on a minute, please." Radio stations had to postpone quotation broadcasts. From coast to coast evening papers, whose Wall Street editions must wait for closing prices and bid & ask quotations, were held up while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused...
...Since '29-So Much Extra Cash To Spend," lushed the Wall Street Journal last week in advertising copy which was simply a facsimile of its front page with ringed items about record automobile show attendance, a coming Florida boom and fat extra dividends. November was the greatest dividend month in history, with total declarations, mostly payable before Christmas, mostly inspired by the Federal tax on undistributed profits, footing up to more than...
...Fairmont, W. Va.. James F. Gwynn discovered a reservoir of honey cached by a hive of bees behind his kitchen wall. Ingenious James Gwynn rigged up a pipe line from the hive to his breakfast table, now flavors his hot cakes from a little honey spigot directly above his plate. Chase...
That you might navigate the wall...