Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street's reaction to events in Cleveland last week could hardly be called a Landon boom. The Dow-Jones industrial stock averages rose 3½ points to 154, utility averages about a point to 32, rail averages less than a point to 46½. Credit for even these gains had to be divided with a big batch of favorable business items, particularly in retail trade, which had been rolling at the best levels since 1930 and was ready-set for distribution of the Bonus, a $1,900,000,000 shot in the retail...
...publications reflect the temper of their communities more accurately than the Bawl Street Journal, annual parody of the sedate Wall Street Journal. Put out by the Bond Club of New York in connection with its annual field day, the Bawl Street Journal is edited by John A. Straley, a literate, sardonic Wall Streeter who is now advertising manager for Lord, Abbett & Co., investment dealers. Last week, while the Bond Club was frolicking in Sleepy Hollow, N. Y., more than 10,000 people paid 50? per copy to read the contributions Editor Straley had accepted for his "Stage Money Edition...
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera seemed stunned for a moment, then suddenly let out a roar like a wounded bull. He took his cap and flung it straight over the head of the presiding judge at the figure of Justice on the wall, tore off his gown and stamped on it. "Bastards!" he screamed, "Bastards! Up Spain! There is no more justice in this country...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
...years, 31 people have been killed on the Indianapolis track. This year the roadbed, rough as a country lane, was widened at the turns. The outside retaining wall, through which cars used to pitch, was reinforced. Drivers wondered whether this change, designed to make the race safer, might not, by "kissing" cars back into the path of the field, merely serve to make it more spectacular. Last week's race indicated that the track had actually been improved. Although the pace was 3 m.p.h. faster than last year's, there was only one serious accident. Wooden-legged...