Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demanding $10,000 unless he wanted his boy back ''in installments." Two days after that a posse of local police found the Dejute boy alive and well in a house not ten miles from his home. The kidnappers were found with him. He had been concealed behind a false wall, said he was well-fed but sleepy...
...work in Cambridge is carried on in a large X-ray laboratory and special vault which extends beyond the wall of the main building. These rooms have been constructed in the basement of the new Research Laboratory, and located so that the rest of the laboratory may be protected from the distrubing influence of the high voltage X-ray tubes...
...deGive, the sallies of Fletcher, Cookman, and Bostwick, might well have skyrocketed the Yale score to a winning figure. Only by sending in Putnam, able puck-carrier, at right defense, to assist the attackers of the first forward line, could Coach Stubbs place sufficient pressure upon the Yale protective wall to yield a score...
...needed money. It had bank loans of $5,940,000 which it wished to pay and some $29,000,000 worth of maturities. To meet them Mr. Hopson offered no mortgage bonds but a special $40,000,000 issue of guaranteed bonds to mature in 1940. Wall Street, contemplating them, whooped with appreciation. Their nature showed Mr. Hopson's sharp accounting mind at its best...
...addition to this "sweetening," each $1,000 bond has a warrant entitling the owner to buy, from 1933-48, ten shares of common at $5 (current prices: $4). The bonds will be offered to A. G. & E. stockholders and bondholders. And this final detail caused the greatest part of Wall Street's whoop. For Mr. Hopson plans to go farther than anti-hoarding Col. Frank Knox with his baby bonds of $50 denomination. The A. G. & E. bonds, which can be paid for in three instalments, will be issued in denominations as low as $10, outdoing the babies of baby...