Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name is Sally Gamble. My husband, Joe Gamble, is in the penitentiary. I want you to get him out. Joe was the cashier of a small national bank, the only bank at Cross Roads. He thought he saw remarkable opportunities to make lots of money by buying options on Wall Street; but the market went down instead and Joe has been sent...
...have saturated home markets with their production and require ever expanding foreign markets to absorb their high-speed manufactures. Seeing their business in the light of world economics (as taught by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover), they feared their foreign customers would cease to sell over a higher tariff wall, would thereby suffer reduced income and buying power, would of necessity stop purchasing U. S. merchandise. If U. S. export trade drops, potent manufacturers envisage a corresponding drop in their production, their profits, their employed labor. Only about 6% of U. S. production is exported but to tycoons whose business...
...Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., General Motors president, summed up the industry's basic argument thus: "The economic position of the U. S. has completely changed during the past two decades. We cannot sell unless we buy. Additional restrictions in the way of raising the height of the tariff wall are bound to have an adverse influence on our domestic prosperity through reducing our ability to produce. . . . The failure of the tariff bill would have a helpful influence...
...Santa Marta courtyard the Pope had welcomed a band of German, Swiss, Italian pilgrims. Scarcely had he begun to speak, however, when the glass front of a wall clock directly above jarred loose. Miraculous was the Pope's escape with only a small cut on one hand. Had not the clock's iron hands deflected the falling glass, injuries to His Holiness might have been grievous...
Built at a cost of some $12,000,000, the new building which looks north up LaSalle St. ("Wall St. of Chicago") is the twelfth home of the Board of Trade in its 82 years, is not owned by the Board but by the Chicago Board of Trade Safe Deposit...