Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreadful word among doctors is glaucoma, hardening of the eyeballs. Salt and water in the blood seep out of the blood vessels of the eye and into the eye's cavity. Because this salty liquid cannot escape, it jams the retina against the wall of the eye, slowly destroys the tasseled end of the optic nerve. Vision dims, blindness ensues. Drugs have proved of little help; surgery gives only temporary relief...
...rainy day last week George stood at the culvert's entrance, staring gloomily at the trickles draining into his culvert home. Ottilie was housekeeping inside the culvert. Suddenly a wall of water appeared coming fast down a drainage trench. It roared past George, swept up Ottilie, smashed her against a curve in the culvert, carried her on to the screen at the culvert's end. Police found her body, every bone broken. Said George: "I've wept so much in two years I have no tears left...
Last week the Wall Street Journal tabulated statements of the first 25 U. S. corporations to report for the June quarter, found aggregate profits up 7% from the same three months of 1934. The gain for the six-month period was almost precisely the same. For a slightly smaller group which had published comparable reports in the past, June quarter profits were 40% above 1933, 102% above 1932, but still below 1931. No major steel companies had reported by last week but the rest of U. S. industry had been fairly sampled...
David Saperstein, director of SEC's Trading & Exchange Division, is an old-time Pecoraman. Smart, he has hired Wall Streeters steeped in the lore of the tape to watch the ticker day in, day out for signs of manipulation. Whenever his tape readers smell a pool, squads of SEC investigators swarm into action. Technical Adviser Paul Gourrich was trained in Kuhn, Loeb...
...size, over-the-counter dealers range from a single individual with desk. space and a telephone to the big unlisted Wall Street houses with the capital and prestige of a first-flight member of the Stock Exchange. They make the markets for the nation's unlisted issues, varying from active Manhattan bank stocks to local real-estate mortgages. All the listed issues on. all U. S. stock exchanges foot up to only 7,000. The roster of unlisted issues may be as high...