Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jack rabbits outnumber the 430 registered voters. But in other parts of the U.S., Cord's name has other meanings. Automobile buffs remember the Cord 812, with its front drive, its classic lines and its $2,395 price tag* as one of the finest U.S. cars ever produced. Wall Street remembers Cord as the golden negotiator and operating man who put the Auburn Automobile Co. in the black, and held substantial interests in American Airways, Lycoming Manufacturing, New York Shipbuilding and Stinson Aircraft before he sold his holdings for $2,632,000 during a 1937 fight with the Securities...
...Heinz Co.'s new $4,500,000 Research Center in Pittsburgh. From the start,recalls Gordon Bunshaft, design partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the lobby was planned for a specific kind of painting: "Brick going in on two sides, Mies van der Rohe chairs in black, a white wall with a bright, vertical mural...
...waits, and when Schill worries, people tell him it comes from his own sense of guilt. But he sees the whole town buying wildly, on credit; and when he tries to run away, he finds an obstructive wall of townspeople at the railway station. In the clutch of material self-interest, the town goes in for moral self-deception, until at a public meeting Schill is condemned to death. With a billion-mark check for his killers, and with Schill's coffin borne before her, Claire goes away...
...Wall Street, which has long since discounted much of the bad news, put on a buying spurt. Led by steels, rails, oils and aircraft, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed two points higher during the week to hit a new high for the year at 462.56, nearly 43 points better than the recession low of last October. Poor earnings were easily shrugged off. At the annual meeting of Radio Corp. of America, President John L. Burns gave 1,275 stockholders of the world's biggest electronics company the bad news about a 29.7% first-quarter decline...
Seeking reasons for the auto slump, the Wall Street Journal pointed a finger at lazy salesmen in a memo to dealers: "There are hordes of people driving the streets today who are ready and able to buy a new car, if you'd only ask them." Last week the Journal got a rise out of William O. Neale, vice president for sales of Los Angeles' Harger-Haldeman, Plymouth-Chrysler-Imperial agency. Wrote Neale: "The fact is, our fellows don't spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone...