Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most of the complaints before you were routine complaints . . . the backwash of run-of-the-mill NRA Administration. . . . My first attempt to [get at complaints] was the Darrow Board which I set up in good faith. ... It was a political wailing wall. . . . There was not one fair hearing before it. ... It packed the record with framed testimony .. . hazed witnesses...
...situation that provident Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) tried to prevent, for overextending one's resources was something he never could abide. One of his favorite ways of making money was to buy up notes which people could not pay and then squeeze the debtors to the wall...
...Scientists told off to help fishermen in the Barents Sea invented electric fish nets. The scheme is to lower a network of wires into the water from the fishing boats, pass a current through the water from wire to wire, creating an electric wall which the fish will not pass. The catch is brought in by opening a rift in the electric wall through which the fish swin into an ordinary...
...first count, SEC found nothing except an ''unfortunate but nonculpable" delay in putting the directors' action on the news ticker, with the result that Baldwin's home town of Philadelphia got a one-hour jump on Wall Street in the scramble to unload Baldwin securities. On the second count, SEC found that Baldwin's 1933 annual "report "misled the investing public" because the directors' action, "evidencing an impaired working capital position, came as a surprise to the investing public rather than as the acceptance of a situation long in the making...
Twenty-five of Harvard's best skiers, graduate and undergraduate, will vie with Dartmouth this Sunday at noon in the last and one of the most spectacular races of the season, a slalom course down the head-wall of Tuckerman's Ravine...