Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need." Commander O'Neil urged legionaries to let those in distress get their money first. Veterans Administrator Hines warned that a full loan on which a veteran paid no interest would virtually eat up the face value of the certificate in the 15 years before it matured. Wall Street recovered from its spasm of fear and began to agree with out-of-town businessmen that a billion dollars deflected into retail trade, into new automobiles, new clothes, new necessities might, after all, give Industry a helpful shove...
...present A entry, the stairway and rooms 15, 25, 34, and 35 will be walled off, and will not be materially changed next year. From this wall out to the end of the wing the present rooms will be removed and completely changed. The wreckers will start tomorrow, and it will be three weeks before the reconstruction work on the house will begin...
...brown, wiry Karel Kozeluh who has often been professional champion of the world and was runner-up to Vincent Richards for this title last summer. Often have tennis-lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that all Kozeluh could do was wave at it; they saw Tilden outsteady the stone wall with baffling dropshots, cross-court drives. Tilden ran the match out in straight...
Ultraconservative, even reactionary in editorial tone, the Journal of Commerce is to the Midwest what the Wall Street Journal is to Manhattan. Its columns are leavened by condensed general news des patches, sports and dramatic reviews, but it does not attempt to compete with comprehensive dailies. Advertisers like it as an economical medium for reaching a definite class of high purchasing power (circ...
...three weeks prior to Washington's Birthday, stocks churned higher on big volume. Bullish rumors flooded Wall Street. There were stories of big bears trapped; of big deals brewing. International Telephone & Telegraph gained 100% over its January low and there were tales that it will again attempt to buy Radio Corp.'s communication business. Auburn leaped from $101 through $210 and bulls said they heard that General Motors had agreed to use Auburn's free-wheeling patents. Once again the names of Mike Meehan and William Crapo Durant were heard where speculators gathered...