Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indication that his government had any plan for doing so. What the present budget would look like if placed on a scale is indescribable, but it seems safe to say that its lack of balance is the red handwriting the businessmen of the country have been seeing on the wall...
...Wall Street is used to soap-box Reds whose favorite place for haranguing the public is the curb eater-corner from J. P. Morgan & Co. Once a year Wall Street's echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volume-the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years...
...suits, his good manners and his sporty English cashier, Sidney ("Sir Sid-ney") Gooch, who wears loud tweeds and speaks with a Cockney accent. A onetime Manhattan ragman, "Kid Rags" operates the biggest book at the smartest U. S. track, Belmont Park, finds most of his trade in Wall Street, specializes in bets from...
...means been a business axiom since the New Deal. Cost of labor and materials tended to jump faster than the price of finished products. But Chrysler in the March quarter boosted its sales 57%, its profits 177%. How Mr. Chrysler made so much money in three short months puzzled Wall Street, for no bookkeeping tricks accounted for the gain. Most credible explanation...
...C.W.A. or chains of Shell gasoline cases, Richard Hunt must be honored for his art alone. Contemplation of his work should be avoided by those with a nostalgia for the good old days when the American capitalist was still on the gold standard and the voice of Wall Street carried more weight in the halls of Congress than the warm blasts from Detroit and Baton Rouge, For, while the masterpieces of the art of Richard Hunt are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tribune Building in New York, he is still chiefly remembered as the author of the marble...