Word: wall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Galactodendron Growers! Philoprogenetics! Butchers! Delicatessen! Read "Pork Prices Explained." Translates New Deal dreams. Nickel. Hiram Mann, 77 Wall...
With proposals like this being made to Canada's eager West by persuasive votegetters, Premier Bennett, his back to the wall, cried out to fellow citizens over the radio: "You are being told of rare economic creations for which, perhaps, we cannot find a name-something never seen before on land or sea! . . . Zealots who obscurely think the printing press can take the place of hard work and thrift have a lot to say. . . . This is no time for unhelpful condemnation of the plans of our political opponents, and yet . . . my natural restraint breaks down before the clear need...
...supply current for the grandiose project of "electrifying all our railroads." Surplus water, according to the President, will be used for vast irrigation projects. The work is to be done by enigmatic Mauricio Hochschild, head of South America's active Hochschild Engineering Co. Last week the company's Wall Street lawyers said that until Mr. Hochschild arrives in Manhattan it will not be known who is to buy Bolivia's bonds...
...will bid for it? That question kept Wall Street buzzing last week. The Morgan banking group made it clear that they would do no more than place bids amounting to upset prices. Old bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, who two years ago stepped out at 74 to buy a 10% interest in New York Central for his rich little Delaware & Hudson, was spotlighted as a likely bidder. Another suggestion was Frederick Henry Prince, crusty septuagenarian Boston banker who jumped into Armour & Co. a year ago. While either Loree or Prince could undoubtedly lay hands on enough cash, neither...
...Much as Wall Street enjoyed speculating about possible buyers, the final answer probably lay in a simple statement that emanated from Cleveland's Terminal Tower. It read: "Messrs. O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen and their associates have completed arrangements to bid for the collateral at the sale and have also arranged for new capital to carry on the enterprises...