Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of 8 hr. each can build a wall 680 ft. long. 12 ft. high and 3.5 in. thick, how long will be a wall that is to be 2.5 ft. thick, 10 ft. high, that 24 men can build in 15 days of 10 hr. each...
With the blessing of Wall Street and all other markets upon him, President Hoover motored to his Rapidan camp to relax. Mrs. Hoover had preceded him there. Their guests included George Woodward Wickersham, Bruce Barton, Newbold Noyes (Washington editor), Edgar Rickard (old business friend). Behind him the President left a world still echoing with his praise. Happiest of cities was Berlin. Its 6 ft. 6 in. Ober-burgermeister, Heinrich ("Uncle Sam") Sahm, went before the International Convention of Building Trades fervently to declare: "I propose President Hoover for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a candidate without competition. His action...
Busier than Pilot Post as the Winnie Mac streaked over the water was Harold Gatty. Cramped into a tiny space behind a wall of special fuel tanks he alternately poked his sextant through a port in the roof, scribbled his computations, passed written directions to the pilot, and pumped gasoline up into the wing tanks. Hard work, but nothing compared to the ordeal of last summer when he and Harold Bromley got i.200 mi. from Japan in an attempt flight to the U. S. and then had to fight their way back to shore with a broken exhaust ring spewing...
...Chicago Board of Trade Building's talisman, grains rallied smartly, sent the theoretical total value of U. S. grains up $300,000,000. On the New York Rubber Exchange, where recently less than a dozen members have come down to trade, the volume increased 500%. Speculative buying from Wall Streeters was credited with having much to do with rubber's comeback...
...golf champion; and Edwin H. Vare Jr., 35, of Philadelphia, son of the late State Senator Edwin H. Vare, nephew of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; in the garden of Mr. & Mrs. George Wallen, friends of Golfer Collett, in Greenwich, Conn. Maid of honor was Bernice Wall, golfer of Oshkosh, Wis. Bride & groom, who met while golfing ten years ago, went off to honeymoon at Murray Bay, Canada. They plan to live in Overbrook, Pa., to continue golfing...