Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press conferences, but when he invited the Press to last week's "house-warming" in his new private office, no less than 150 newsmen went to see and marvel. Twice as large as an ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair, at a walnut desk with a green glass top. He rose, blushing with pride, and declared: "We're certainly...
...Debt Wall, Bound up inside Germany are long and medium-term private debts owed to foreign creditors of some 8,000,000,000 marks ($3,140,000,000 at current exchange) and an annual interest bill of about $195,000,000. Last week one of Germany's smartest bargainers, Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, lowered the debt wall again at the end of a month-long haggle with representatives of Germany's U. S., British. French, Swedish, Dutch and Swiss creditors...
...mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit ran his Scott Special into the outer retaining wall, bounced over to the ground. A broken wrist was his only injury. That was the worst wreck of the race.* Fifty miles farther on two more cars skidded with only minor hurts and the rest of the field was warned to slow down while the wreckage was cleared away...
Economics Statistics was founded by three bright young disciples of Economist Lewis Henry Haney of New York University-George Ogden Trenchard, Jules Blackman and Andrew Lavell Jackson, great-grandson of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson and onetime editor of Bradstreet. Working in Wall Street by day and plugging for Ph.D.'s by night, they absorbed Professor Haney's theories of forecasting business by analyzing demand-supply factors, amplified his statistical methods, established the service just a year ago. Their clients already include nearly every big Manhattan bank, countless brokers, such major industrials as General Motors and International Harvester...
...Wall Street scarcely noted the bill's passage. On the New York Stock Exchange stocks were slipping to new lows for the year. Trading volume dwindled to the slowest pace in eleven years. With regulation a fact, weary brokers frankly admitted that in their fight against a Federal strait-jacket they had painted the future somewhat blacker than it was likely to be. Their business would be different under Federal rule but by no means extinct...