Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years we expanded far beyond our natural and normal growth. . . . Corporate profit was enormous. . . . The consumer was forgotten . . . the worker was forgotten . . . the stockholder was forgotten. Enormous corporate surpluses . . . went into new and unnecessary plants, which now stand stark and idle, and into the call money market of Wall Street...
This royal bombshell, exploded on the eve of the Imperial Economic Conference scheduled to meet at Ottawa July 21, placed the Royal Family in a most peculiar position. The British public has been led to hope and expect that at Ottawa a tariff wall would be thrown up around the Empire with free trade among the dominions and with the mother country. Nothing short of a royal retraction could wipe out the fact that the Empire's heir apparent had placed himself squarely in opposition to this policy and had taken a political stand...
...more graceful. A Liberty Bell was suspended from his neck by the U. S. flag and he faced west toward the land of unlimited resources. When Washington Duke began to make cigarets as well as smoking tobacco he gave as his reason: "My company is up against a stone wall. It can't compete with the Bull." Durham's bull was the object of a score of lawsuits before he became the property of American Tobacco Co. in 1898. As time passed the bull seemed to grow younger, more alert. He turned his head east again, became civilized...
Suddenly and unexpectedly last week the Senate Banking & Currency Committee voted to halt its probe of Wall Street. No decision was made on whether it would start again in the autumn but politicians know that most such investigations when once allowed to lapse are seldom revived. The Committee returned to Representative La Guardia his little brown trunkful of papers relating to Wall Street and the Press. Only a week ago $50.000 had been received to continue the investigation until March 4, 1933 but in Washington it was guessed that that much was needed to cover a deficit already incurred...
...There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed rubber mat on the floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom, not of porcelain which may crack or "craze," is of rough- surfaced iron, | in. thick, coated with enamel. A color may be baked on: T'ang red, clair de lune blue, Ming green, rose du Barry, orchid de Vincennes...