Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington but Wall Street that's ruined us. It's not Mr. Hoover who made the Depression. He isn't big enough. It's the breakdown of the capitalist system itself. . . . No budget is balanced that ignores the desperate plight of 13,000,000 unemployed...
...last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished...
Seven seconds, which seemed like an eternity, was the actual launching time. Enormous chains slowed the Normandie lest she slide too far and crash into a cement wall at the other end of her basin. She did not crash. St. Nazaire went wild with joy. St. Nazaire workmen will be busy for another 18 months installing the innards of the Normandie...
Questioned about the Communist attitude towards the other presidential candidates, Miss Lewis stated, "If Mr. Hoover is elected, the depression will continue, because he is a candidate of the capitalist class Mr. Roosevelt is endorsed by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle, because they realize that Roosevelt will run the government for the benefit of Wall Street Roosevelt, who speaks about the 'Forgotten Man's has himself forgotten the men in his own state. He is just as able to bring the United States out of the depression as he was to bring...
Reason for these rumors and the attendant stock decline was not widely known outside Wall Street. September cigaret consumption was 3.9% below that of September 1931, but fewer cigarets have been smoked this year than every month last year except August, and September's showing was better than the nine-month average, which was 10.12% below 1931's. Careful readers of financial pages could find an occasional paragraph tucked away in a corner reporting the price rumors and citing the popularity of cigarets as the cause, but newspapers were not inclined to go deeply into the subject...