Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he likes to speak in paradoxes, smiling Lord Melchett next informed the Bond Club that Britain, in preparing to erect a tariff wall around her Empire, is really seeking the benefits of free trade. "We are beginning to think along the lines of economic units the size of the United States," said he. "Your vast continent, stretching from the Atlantic to San Francisco, presents the greatest free trade area in the world. ... It owes its great prosperity not to tariffs but to its great free trade area! . . . That is something which has been overlooked in America...
Finally this potent, prophetic Briton indulged in a bit of pure irony which made some of the Bond Clubbers squirm: "You have always protected your home market. The infant industries of America have remained in swaddling clothes ever since I can remember. You have put up a tariff wall which has enabled them to grow up to manhood and protects them today. In fact, the longer you go on, the higher it gets. Of course, you never have varied, and I don't think ever will vary it or should vary...
...exception of the very popular Frappier, none of these are regularly patronized by Yale students. The students' favorite, the Taft Hotel shop, rated 97. Other choices: Emil Kossack, York St. (over the Jigger Shop), 93; Louis Miller, High St., 96. Sheffield Scientific School men go to Joseph DiFranco, Wall St.. 96; Gus Klein, Grove St. (near a beer joint...
Last week the Bemidji, Minn., Fish Hatchery telephoned long distance to its officials to tell them that Old Silverspot, matriarch of wall-eye pike, was safe at the hatchery. She had been missing for two years. Hatchery men had thought she was dead of old age or had been a fisherman's prize 25-lb. catch. Fish officials hurried to Bemidji, found her swimming in a tub. They took her picture as Minnesota's mother of millions...
...director of the hatcheries distinguished her among wall-eye pike by punching a hole in her tail fin in acknowledgment of her reproductive ability...