Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a spell of stormy weather, the surface of Lake Michigan was calm off the shore near Holland, Mich., one sunny, windless day last week. Without warning a huge, smooth wall of water, at least ten feet high according to witnesses, rolled in from the lake, smashed the shoreline. Other big waves followed. Scores of rescues were made along miles of waterfront. Five persons were swept out into the lake by a ferocious undertow and drowned...
...annual Festival of the Modern Dance. In the sprawling white farm buildings which house Vermont's youngest and most experimental college, some 150 acolytes, many of them heads of dance departments in other colleges, leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington...
...have tried to banish tip sheets from Wall Street, but investors may still buy astrological magazines in Manhattan's financial district. In American Astrology for July, a market forecast by one Colby Griffin said that the conjunction of Mercury and Mars "in square aspect to Saturn . . . (the house of speculation)" made caution in July investments advisable...
...last week, up 57% in three weeks. Brokers' loans, always the best index of speculative interest in the market, rose to $537,000,000, a $22,000,000 increase in two weeks. Trading on the Exchange, however, turned down last week in the reaction which Wall Street always expects as speculators cash in their profits. One day sales volume hit the highest point since October 29, (2,774,320); two days later volume tumbled to the lowest in three weeks (592,300). Dow-Jones industrial averages at week's end stood at 136.20, down 2.33 points from...
...influence the operating policies of its affiliated power companies, it is a favorite of utility operating men. But this makes no difference to SEC. For, though power companies require heavy capitalizations that make financiers their logical bosses, SEC believes that systems of operating companies pyramided to a peak in Wall Street offer too many chances for overcapitalization at the expense of stockholder and consumer. This was the basis of the Public Utility Act of 1935, which United and its fellows have fought...