Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the New Deal asked Congress to regulate the nation's stock exchanges in 1934, Wall Street and leading industrialists fought the bill with such fervor that Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn called their opposition "the most powerful lobby ever organized against any bill which ever came up in Congress." Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission celebrated its 25th anniversary, the SEC was as accepted in Wall Street as the Stock Exchange, got due credit for helping raise the standards of stock trading and corporate financing to the highest in the world. But there were still complaints. They...
Boiler Shops. It is the SEC's delays in approving registrations of new issues that are spurring Wall Street's biggest complaints. Said Robert L. Winkler, partner of Bernard Winkler & Co.: "By the time the SEC gets around to approving a registration, market conditions have changed and issues often cannot be floated." In the year ended last June 30, the SEC approved an alltime high of 1,226 securities-registration statements, a 34% increase over the previous year. In many cases the time needed for an O.K. was 28 days after filing, eight days more than...
...increasing sweat and the increasing number of men along the wall told Dudley that The Question had to come...
...first class. As a non-Honors junior in English, Vag had chosen three large English lecture courses and one of the more popular History courses. None of these had sections or discussion periods; a fact which had formerly dismayed Vag, but which now rather cheered him. Resting against one wall, his recording mechanism purring quietly as the professor spoke, Vag felt a contentment he had never known before...
...Cortlandt Park and the Hudson's shore near Spuyten Duyvil, but he did not stick to the man-made nature spots of parks and reserves. Through the asphalt of a parking lot, Kieran has seen emerge the fragile but persistent mustard plant. The most merciless predator of Wall Street is neither bull nor bear, but the peregrine falcon; the swift diving bird of medieval romance roosts in the towers of office buildings and, with pigeons as prey, makes many a killing in the street. Once, covering a football game at Columbia's Baker Field, Kieran spotted hawks high...