Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About Ike and Saud conferring at the White House and that picture hanging on the wall in Ike's office [Feb. 11]. Is it Mecca? Does it hang there all the time or just on certain occasions...
...take-off for Paris, as Director Billy Wilder has filmed and cut it, is a striking piece of cinematic craftsmanship. One by one, like bricks in a rising wall the difficulties are stacked in front of the hero (James Stewart) and in the moviegoer's mind: bad weather, the sod runway almost ankle-deep in mud and spotted with potholes, high wires and high trees near the field's edge, engine running 30 revs too low, gas load at least a hundred gallons more than the plane has ever taken off with, pilot already worn from lack...
This is a novel about people with beer tastes and champagne incomes. They are the reverse of Oscar Wilde's cynics, for they know the value of everything and the price of almost nothing. They spout dialogue like a Wall Street high-speed ticker, but the quotations mean less. At their best they are faulty reproductions of two old masters, Fitzgerald and Marquand. At their worst they share what 27-year-old Novelist Flood (whose 1953 novel. Love Is a Bridge, was much overpraised) seems to share with many another young writer these days-tired blood...
NEVER before has there been so much advice pouring out of Wall Street on the state of the stock market, and never have investors cupped their ears so eagerly. In 1956, according to the New York Stock Exchange, no fewer than 30,700 market letters poured forth from 296 of its member firms, giving advice on what to buy and sell. Total circulation: an estimated 10 million. Estimated worth of most of them, in the opinion of most Wall Street professionals: "Not a hoot in hell...
...Wall Streeters praise carefully prepared securities reports on particular stocks or industries, which go largely to brokerage houses and are rarely seen by the public. What they lambaste are the glib, hastily prepared market letters, the short daily or weekly tip sheets on market movements and particular stocks, which brokers pass out to their customers like pretzels...