Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cremation, urn and a niche in a columbarium $50 to $10,000; a single grave lot, seldom more than $50; a modest headstone $50. A few crematists, to popularize their profession, are charging only $50 to perform all disposal functions from death bed to hole-in-the-wall. Cremation in a modern oil furnace takes only 90 minutes...
...give his invention-run off on an oval wooden track indoors-a wholesome fresh-air touch, Promoter Seltzer hit on the idea of making the standard distance 4,000 miles, calling the events Transcontinental Derbies, encouraging the illusion by wall maps with bulbs to show the imaginary geographical position of the contestants. Roller Derby teams in the Hippodrome last week were officially racing "the short course" from Salt Lake City to New York, via Route 30. First, after three of the 21 days the Derby is supposed to last, were Millie Duello and her partner Johnny Rosasco...
...August means a big cut in the growing cotton crop. Worst August that anyone in Wall Street remembered was 1927 when the Government's Sept. 1 crop estimate fell a whopping 800,000 bales below its August estimate. Since the official estimates largely determine cotton prices there is big money in guessing right what the next estimate will be. Fortnight ago more than a dozen cotton brokers and experts began this guessing game. Most of them daringly went out on a limb, estimated a record drop of 500,000 to 700,000 bales below the Government's August...
...kingdom of copper there are two major provinces. One is the U. S., bounded by a towering tariff wall (4? per lb.). The other is the world outside. There copper men have low production costs and, since Depression, usually sell their metal below the U. S. price, thus keeping most of U. S. copper inside its own stockade. Last week, for the first time since 1931, foreign copper prices spurted past the U. S. quotation, rose to 9.95? per lb., compared to the current domestic price of 9.75?. As the price climbed, the foreign copper cartel announced that next month...
...much to worry about anyway, cheerful readers without a care in their hearts can confidently take it up as a valuable, entertaining volume, to be opened at those moments when the wolf howls outside the door and the little grey men start sneaking out of the patterns of the wall paper...