Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull moose. Returning home from a night call he saw a moose cross his lawn and start up the village street. Dr. Beauchamp stepped on the gas, gave chase. When the moose turned up a blind street, he was able to crash it with his car against a brick wall, the animal's legs getting caught under the wheels...
...drew back for the second. Crack! Lame Woody Jenson watched the ball sail high above the right field fence, hobbled home. A boy who had scrambled down from the fence when the ball came his way watched it pass far overhead, clear the street outside, bang against a wall. By the time he recovered it Owen was sitting on the bench again, the game and series were as good as over. With two Millers on base in their half of the inning, the Bears wound up the series by a deft double play...
...builders of Manhattan's newest, completed skyscraper, Cities Service's 67-story Sixty Wall Tower, installed double-deck elevators which seem to satisfy the tenantry. If ordinary single elevators had been used, the economical height of that building would not have been more than 48 stories...
Rockefeller Center), Alfred Emanuel Smith (Empire State), Henry Latham Doherty (60 Wall) and their competitors want to carry as many people as possible each trip of their swift machines, and to get the passengers in & out as fast as possible...
...matters like this Wall Street is prone to rely heavily upon the famed doctrine of Caveat Emptor ("Let the buyer beware"). On the other hand the investing public, as represented by their District Attorneys, like to put the blame for any loss on the financial go-between...