Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the earth wobbled; stone buildings fell apart; wooden ones crumpled: Earthquake. A tidal wave tore over the sea wall, sucked the low-lying shore buildings into its wash. Fire broke out, swept over the debris, for scarcely one building remained erect in Napier. News of the disaster spread fast. Wellington rushed doctors, nurses, medical supplies and food by train. By sea New Zealand's two cruisers Dunedin and Diomede sped to help...
...United States is recalling capital from Europe," declared the Paris-Midi, "in preparation for organizing another speculative rise in Wall Street...
After many weeks of cogitation and cautious explanation, the New York Stock Exchange last week raised a phrase of Wall Street's vocabulary from obscurity to national import and significance. The phrase: Secondary Distribution. Basic in the Exchange's structure has been the principle that members receive commissions, but pay no commissions to their employes, for business in Big Board stocks and bonds. Also basic has been the general rule that no member has a listed security ''for sale." A member might advise a stock, might buy it in the open market for a customer...
...refuse permission, to limit the time during which a security may be distributed, even to withdraw permission. When the "doorbell-ringing" campaign starts to sell Big Board securities on a commission basis, the Special Committee on Secondary Distribution will rank as one of the most potent, responsible committees in Wall Street...
...practical purposes the only apparent obstacle that prevents the extension of this privilege is the peremptory placard on the wall. In view of the fireproof construction of the building and the constant flare of Bunsen burners the plea that smoking will cause a fire lacks conviction...