Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berry Keenan to help speed up Missouri justice. Late into the night the jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with an accomplice had taken the girl from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter McGee, arrested in Amarillo, Tex., had con fessed...
...were correct, cash looked better than a railroad too to Leonor Fresnel Loree who last year bought for his rich little Delaware & Hudson 500,000 shares of New York Central at an average of $20 a share. Before the July Crash this investment showed a $19,000,000 profit. Wall Street heard last week that canny old Leonor Loree took some of his profits before Central slumped from its high of $58.50 a share to last week's price...
...speakeasy is an ideal institution, and as soon as you get prohibition repealed, you're going to have saloons again just as sure as even now with beer you're getting a lot of holes-in-the-wall where low-class loafers get together and scheme. The speakeasy is quiet and refined and the food is better than in a lot of restaurants. Why I know a place in New York in the 50's decorated by Joseph Urban that is nice enough to take your 12-year old kins to. It's a good idea because it keeps liquor...
...started last autumn when Chicago's architects gave a Fête Charrette for unemployed architects at the Drake Hotel (TIME, Oct. 10). They rigged up a Quartier Latin of wall board and in one of the concessions they established a life class model, better looking than most, who supplied an eyeful to non-professional guests at $1 a head. The venture was such a success that famed John Wellborn Root and other architects got Merchant George Lytton and others to put up a guarantee fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World...
When Col. Lindbergh points his Lockheed over Greenland's inland ice; when he takes the heavier, slower Fairchild, gets a radio bearing from the Jellinge and tries his hand at drilling through a fog wall into port-such exciting ventures will be the climax of an infinitely painstaking job which Pan American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge...