Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gradually stepped up on Philippine exports. The House bill provides independence after eight years' probation. The Senate debate was trivial, shallow, time-killing, few members believing the bill would escape a Presidential veto. Farm lobbyists, eager to put Philippine sugar and vegetable oils outside the U. S. tariff wall, operated from Senator Capper's committee room just off the Senate lobby...
Overnight the tone of talk in "The City"?London's Wall Street?changed utterly last week. Bitterness at Uncle Shylock changed to pride that John Bull had paid. Fear lest the pound fall vanished as Sterling rose slightly in terms of both the dollar and the franc. England was herself again. Blood had told. Hands across the sea. Honi soit qui mal y pense...
Gold is such heavy stuff that a 17-in. cube weighs a ton. It took four husky gnomes to budge each little truck. They trundled the selected trucks a distance of 30 ft. across the vault, bunched them together against the wall. Having seen this done, Governor Norman's emissary returned upstairs and a cable was dispatched to the Federal Reserve Bank...
...Shanghai a Russo-Chinese steamship company was organized, announced that its ships wall ply between Shanghai and Vladivostok. Just how important the new Russo-Chinese rapprochement seems in Chinese eyes appeared when the Nanking Government appointed its Minister to the U. S., Dr. W. W. Yen, to be Ambassador to Russia. Dr. Yen, who has been fighting China's losing League battle in Geneva, prepared last week to follow Comrade Litvinov straight to Moscow...
...professors at Ohio State University withdrew their names as his sponsors when he came there to lecture. And the New York Herald Tribune had the enterprise to conduct and publish an inquiry into Howard Scott's past, together with a somewhat toplofty editorial to assure Wall Street that the status quo was not in danger...