Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with bastions. It was a sight to swell every U. S. heart. But as time passed its Army builders began to ask: What use was the fortress? Finding no answer, they quietly left the great pile unmanned and unarmed, went about other business...
...offices, rest rooms. High over the veterans' heads on the fourth floor are the 14 galleries of the museum. Beautifully laid out, scientifically lit, all it needs is a permanent collection of pictures. Curator Grace Louise McCann Morley, a native Californian, was able to fill most of her wall space last week with the S. F. A. A. annual exhibition. After that will come the traveling international show of the Carnegie Institute. What Director Morley will do about pictures after that is a problem to be faced when the time comes...
Madam Secretary Perkins called in the architects, demanded an immediate change. The bedeviled architects protested. Madam Secretary insisted. Moving day for the Department was postponed. Carpenters tore down the second door and masons replaced it with a brick wall two feet thick to protect the Secretary's privacy. Hastily a corner of the Solicitor's office was hedged off for a second bathroom for Mr. Wyzanski's private...
During the panic of 1857, when nearly every bank in the land suspended specie payments at least temporarily. Chemical continued to pay out cash on demand, much of it in good hard gold. Even today the bank is affectionately known to Wall Street oldsters as "Old Bullion...
...Such was Wall Street's jittery reaction one day last week to the possibility that the U. S. Supreme Court would uphold the sanctity of gold clause contracts and restore billions of dollars of public and private obligations which Congress had said were not to be paid in gold or its equivalent (TIME, Jan. 21). Domestic markets slumped ominously. Led by Homestake Mining (gold), which dropped $30 per share to $340, the stockmarket sold down steeply. Wheat touched the lowest level in nearly three months (95? per bu.) and cotton sloughed off $1 per bale...