Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon a cluster of Communist officials turned up at the monastery and started ransacking it. When a female clerk tried to phone her superiors, a buxom Anna Pauker type snatched the phone out of her hands and tore it from the wall. The Communists did not stop to examine their loot: papers and mimeograph machines were dumped helter-skelter into sacks. Soon an angry crowd of pilgrims formed outside the building, and one official nervously summoned the police. Police arrived armed with gas masks and swinging truncheons...
...Wall Streeter called it, "a runaway market-a panic of dollars into stocks...
...some Wall Streeters, the rise was a little too fast for comfort; they argued that no earnings anywhere in sight can justify present stock prices. But with the end of the recession coinciding with a foreign crisis, a lot of investors apparently felt that means either " 1) a rising peacetime economy, or 2) business stimulated by war scares, both of which mean increased inflation...
...contracts for 4,938 miles of U.S. highways, plus another $4.7 billion for 65,821 miles of state and local roads. The prospects are that highway work should keep construction activity high through the rest of the year; more than $6 billion of the total estimated $100 billion program wall reach the industry...
...offers him food and comfort. And when his wife comes home from work and his son from school, there is a moving confrontation that shows how the faceless horror can beat upon yet not crush out the deepest feelings of its victims. Tibor Dery's Behind the Brick Wall tells a story in which impoverished factory workmen are forced to steal, workers' "trials" force pathetic culprits into suicide, and decent men in positions of power are made literally sick by the actions they must take. No one can read it without briefly sharing the sickness...