Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked behind the caisson with tears in his eyes. As boss of Leningrad before and during World War II, Zhdanov had placed a clique of up-and-coming young administrators in crucial posts. Scarcely had his body been lowered into a grave at the foot of the Kremlin wall when his chief rival, pudgy Georgy Malenkov, joined with Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria in persuading Stalin to liquidate the "Leningrad clique" and replace it with a Malenkov clique...
...crowd of 4000, begging for an upset, roared when the lanky star from Barcelona grabbed the first set, but Laver promptly swept the next three. Ken Rose-wall salvaged third place by defeating fellow Aussie Fred Stolle...
...those businessmen concerned about the U.S. economic mood midway in 1957, a prime indication of the nation's confidence came last week from Wall Street. After floundering aimlessly over the last fortnight, the stock market surged forward, shrugging off all reports of soft spots and vacation shutdowns, the long holiday weekend and other normally depressing factors. In the kind of selective trading that has become the trademark of 1957's bull market, investors sent International Business Machines up 21 points in two days to a new high of 358; Alcoa went to 101 for a 21% gain over...
...Wall Street's optimistic mood was reflected in a survey taken by Dun & Bradstreet of the presidents* of 110 top U.S. corporations with total assets of $27 billion. Not one of the presidents saw a recession coming in 1957. To the contrary, three out of four were confident that no major depression or recession will occur within the next ten years, and all but five of the rest ruled out the possibility of recession until 1960 or later. As for their individual prospects, the presidents predicted sales increases in the next ten years ranging from...
...their two children (boy and girl) will desert in the fall for a town house. Tanner is masterminding the rebuilding of this now-gutted dream house: the brownstone front will be limestone, the ceiling in the maid's sitting room will be knocked out to create the wall space needed to hang some heirloom tapestries "with a lot of people in codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker on the Chicago Board of Trade) is really another decade. "I'm a pre-crash item. You know, those vulgar colored...