Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police identified the woman as Bertha Walt, a pretty young Zurich office worker. The night before she had carried some bread away from the dinner table, and apparently went to the zoo to feed Chang. There was a keeper's door in the wall at the back of the elephant pit through which she could have entered. To a friend she had said: "I often find animals kinder than people...
...four nights a week, he has an odd, recurring dream. He is an athlete in a jampacked, outsized stadium. He takes off for an efficient, unspectacular broad jump. But he suddenly soars past the pit and over the heads of the officials, zooms right on over the stadium wall in a long, majestic arc, and wakes before he lands...
...optimistic bustle, there was only one area of quiet deflation: the stockmarket. The great wartime bull market had died in 1946, scared to death by fear of the recession that is not yet here. Yet the stockmarket went right on acting as if recession were just around the corner. Wall Streeters wryly quipped that New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram "was the one man in the country to reduce prices...
While floor managers and sales personnel hastened to the front of the store attracted by the smoke bombs, and to summon fire trucks, two bandits methodically pinned Mr. Dupre against the wall, and covered the cashiers, Miss Estelle Sutherland of Allston, and Miss Georgie Treblis of Watertown...
...bonds whenever necessary to keep up their prices, decided that they were too high. The long-term bonds have been selling anywhere from one to three points above par. When the Federal Reserve Banks stopped buying, prices promptly dropped. Although Federal Reserve was mum on the new support level, Wall Streeters guessed that it might be just a shade above...