Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company engaged in manufacturing patented egg-containers. Another operates whaling vessels. Others make camel's hair goods, fountain pens, soft drinks, clocks, sheets, bathing suits. But never until last week was a company, devoted entirely to peanuts, represented upon a New York stock market. The peanut came to Wall Street with the listing on the Curb of Tom Huston Peanut...
From these days of big game, Wolf Lamar has sunk far, as have a great many other Wolves of Wall Street. In 1927 he was charged with the act most typical of the Street's wolves-raising the price of securities through "wash" sales to friends...
...many a petty larcenist as well as on many a bold manipulator has been fixed the title: "Wolf of Wall Street." Last week one of the Street's oldest wolves, one who has prowled more than 30 years, was again in trouble...
Oldsters in Wall Street can well recall many a situation in which Wolf David Lamar has figured. Sometimes he has associated with prominent men. There was the time when he attempted to get an injunction against E. E. Harriman's voting a large block of Union Pacific stock, solely because Harriman, then needing votes, might have bought for a stiff price the Union Pacific stock held by famed Speculator Keene, Lamar's friend. Later he charged Union Pacific with false book keeping, caused Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath to exclaim: "He is the most unconscionable of liars...
...Riverside Heights, N. J., Thomas Bart, his wife and two sons went to the cellar to spray sandfleas. Spontaneous combustion ignited the insecticide, blew the roof off the house, knocked in one wall, causing the first floor to cave in. The Barts were all seriously injured...