Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Museum officials have also been cleaning some Chinese wall paintings, almost a thousand years old, which have been taken in pieces from the walls of caves. First the ancient pigment film is given a thorough cleansing and several layers of Japanese tissue and muslin are glued to the clean surface...
Since the opening days of the current Administration, Roosevelt has pursued a policy so radical in its implications that it has antagonized the leading business interests of the country and has precluded cooperation between Washington and Wall Street. In this mutual antipathy and distrust, many economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible...
...which employed 600 hands a year ago, today has 3,200. So great is the world's admiration for the Douglas Airliner that even when Douglas Aircraft Co. omitted its semi-annual dividend last February-cash was needed to finance unfilled orders-the stock strengthened its position in Wall Street...
...markets had declined?if they had merely continued to stand still . . . Wall Street would not have been surprised," rumbled Alexander Dana Noyes, venerable financial editor of the New York Times, in commenting on last fortnight's election reactions. "What actually happened on the New York Stock Exchange would hardly have been predicted...
...Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish on his own father's property. That led to a suspended sentence and two fistfights. But when officers of the law came to free the family pet, Grandma Goodhue's caged red bird, shot guns were taken off the wall. The posse that had set out to hang Pa Goodhue lost its nerve, but that night somebody shot him in the dark. His murderer almost got away to the war scot-free; just in time Clay found out who it was, paid the family debt and went West where there...