Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faces on the Wall. In his new office McElroy operates under the gaze of his five predecessors, hanging in oil portraits on the pale blue walls. Set apart is the first Defense Secretary, tight-lipped James Forrestal, whose health was broken by the job. Frame by frame are jowly Louis Johnson, whose ham-handed economy, reducing the forces on the insistence of Harry Truman, left the U.S. almost totally unprepared for Korea; austere George Marshall, who had to work mightily to pick up Johnson's pieces; able Robert Abercrombie Lovett, who found that even-handed patience was not nearly...
After 41 years on Wall Street, wealthy Win Smith (his partner's-cut of the profits in 1956 was more than $150,000) is still a calm, friendly, unpretentious man. Each weekday he travels from his Manhattan apartment on East 72nd Street to his Wall Street office in a four-man car pool. He stays at his desk seven to ten hours a day, takes work home two or three nights a week. He relaxes on weekends at his 118-acre Connecticut farm near Litchfield by driving a tractor or romping with his seven-year...
Antonietta's husband, a farm laborer and Communist sympathizer, was skeptical. For four days crowds flooded into Syracuse while, according to many accounts, the Madonna continued to weep. Said a doubter: "I took the statue from the wall and found the wall behind it dry. I unscrewed the statue from its base and thoroughly dried it. Then two tears, like pearls, began to appear in the eyes of the Madonna." The Syracuse police force added its weight to the evidence. When the figure was removed to headquarters, its tears were said to have wet the tunic of the policeman...
BIGGEST BOND ISSUE for a public utility in history of Pacific Northwest is making splash on Wall Street. The $250 million issue, floated by 140-firm investment syndicate for Washington's 775,000 kw. Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River, was oversubscribed in advance despite tight money...
...partitions and wall and floor cabinets in the new areas will be moveable, so that laboratories may be rearranged as research programs change...