Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trenton, N. J., stands the New Jersey State Prison, isolated from the city by a 22-ft. wall. On top of the wall last week an electric wire needed repairing. An electrician leaned his ladder against the wall, went up to fix the wire. After him clambered four convicts, thrust him from the ladder, shot a guard atop the wall, dropped to the street outside. Before other guards knew what was happening they had disappeared around a corner, commandeered two automobiles and roared away...
Bankers Warm. The Bank of France last week tried a threat on Wall Street. So, at least, some U. S. bankers thought. Their patriotism, kept sternly in check on ordinary occasions, was abruptly aroused. What was called the "French threat" was this : the Bank of France told Wall Street banks with which it had short term balances of some $600,000,000 that their rate of interest (1½%) was "unsatisfactory...
That was all. But when any depositor says such a thing to his banker, he means that he is thinking of taking his money somewhere else. Could Wall Street stand, last week, to lose $600,000,000? In Europe, especially in Berlin, editors took the line that "Wall Street must yield to the Bank of France" (i. e. must persuade the French to leave their deposits in Manhattan by offering higher interest...
Their danders up, some of Manhattan's biggest bankers let newshawks know that Depositor France could withdraw her gold and welcome (i. e. and be damned). Straightway two things significantly did not happen : the Bank of France and other European interests with large balances in Wall Street not only made no large withdrawals but drew less U. S. gold by earmark and shipment last week than for any similar period during the month ; secondly, Manhattan banks did not up their interest rate but continued to pay only 1½% to the Bank of France which continued to take...
Roman Jubilee. Eighty fat barrels full of U. S. gold ($22,000,000) made Romans jubilate last week. Where they came from interested Wall Street. No gold shipment of such size has cleared from the U. S. for Italy this year. Smug, the Bank of Italy (having probably obtained its U. S. gold via France) would admit only that Italy had got it, would use the precious stuff to keep her lira on the Gold Standard...