Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight, Host Gettle and a friend named Wolf were alone in the pavilion having a drink at a new bar. They had just clinked glasses when two masked men walked in. "Put 'em up." Gettle and Wolf were led outside and across the garden to a high wall. Leaving Wolf taped and bound, the snatchers hoisted Gettle's 500-lb. bulk over the wall by a ladder, dumped him down on the far side, drove him off into the night...
Thirty Day Princess (Paramount) shows how complicated the flotation of an international bond issue may become when conducted by Hollywood instead of Wall Street. This picture provides Sylvia Sidney with a dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17? in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon...
...even the Declaration of Independence had no influence on Senators bent on passing the Stock Exchange Bill as the Administration wanted it. One by one all attempts at pulling its teeth were overridden with dispatch. When Wall Street heard that Ohio's Senator Bulkley had been able to pick up 30 votes, including Senator Carter Glass's, for an amendment banning all margin trading, the last slim hope for a moderate measure disappeared. Stock Exchange seats plummeted to $100,000, down $40,000 from last month, $90,000 from last February...
...more than half the registrations to date. The liquor industry is in second place, with mining third. The Commission has held up 43 issues offered for registration, due to their promoters' failure to supply all the facts & figures. Of these 34 are still held up. Until this spring Wall Street's unqualified statement that the Securities Act stifled the capital market was wide open to question. Act or no Act, neither stocks nor bonds could be sold. In 1933 corporate security offerings amounted to $381,000,000-lowest level on record. Of this...
...stands at the very top. She stands at the top in the amount her government spends on armaments; at the top in the amount of arms she exports to other nations, at the top also by virtue of the billion francs she has spent to build a military Chinese wall of forts, many of them underground, along her eastern boundaries. But these mere quantitative details do not reveal the true significance of her position...