Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyman tickler imitates the action of the heart's "pacemaker." The pacemaker is a spot in the wall of the heart's right auricle. Here originates the stimulus which excites the normal heart to beat about 70 times a minute. Dr. Hyman's investigations told him that the stimulus is an electric current generated by the pacemaker. Ingeniously he measured that current, found it about one-thousandth of one volt...
High up in No. 1 Wall St. are the Manhattan offices of Calvin Bullock, investment banking house. There also are the roomy offices of Calvin Bullock, Denver banker who branched east. Calvin Bullock is unique among large banking houses in that it is a proprietary business; there are no partners, no "& Co." Quiet, slow-spoken Calvin Bullock is the firm of Calvin Bullock. Last week Bank & Banker Calvin Bullock launched a new investment trust, Canadian Investment Fund, Ltd., designed to invest primarily in Canadian industry...
...secret agents of Imperial Germany rattle Wall Street windows, kill three U. S. citizens and scare the whole country by touching off the terrific Black Tom munitions explosion eight months before the U. S. entered the War? Did German agents also cause the Kingsland munitions fire...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
...Corp. (90% owned by Mr. Fox) he is seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures R. C. A. Photophone, a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph's Western Electric. Both Wall Street and Hollywood regard the suits as Mr. Fox's bid for a comeback in the film field. From the $100,000,000 or more that the industry has taken out of sound films, Mr. Fox expects to recover for himself...