Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pound of Abuse. The Literary Gazette, Pravda and Izvestia all published anti-Marshall cartoons. They all took the party line of previous Izvestia cartoons that Uncle Sam, egged on by Wall Street and the press, was trying to grab the world...
Those who backed their expectations with money in Wall Street were more inclined to go along with Sloan. The stock-market perked up last week after more than two months of listless decline. The volume of trading passed a million shares in two sessions v. only one million-share session in September. Moreover, prices edged up in all of the sessions, boosting the Dow-Jones industrial average up 3.59 for the week to 179.44. The week's activity was still too mild to confirm any trend. But traders were more cheerful than they had been in weeks...
...Wall Street's 1,200-odd market advisers had urged their clients five months ago to "buy Kaiser-Frazer stock and double your money," he would have been hooted at. On the New York Curb Exchange, where the stock steadily dropped from its $20.25 offering price to a low of 5 last May, it was considered shrewd to be "short" on Kaiser-Frazer, i.e., to bet it would go lower...
...Tone of Legend. Seven weeks later a wasted, ghostly figure crept down the mountainside to Aire. It was Antoine, who had incredibly survived because the rear wall of his cabin had been the cliff itself. Dazed and half-starved, he spends only one night at home, returns the next morning determined to find Seraphin, whose voice he had heard after the landslide. When the superstitious mountain men refuse to go with him, he crazily attacks the boulder-strewn waste with pick and shovel, is brought back to sanity only by the courage and understanding of his wife who has followed...
...Chairman Thomas K. Finletter, Wall Street lawyer; Harvard's George P. Baker; Publisher Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post; Dun & Bradstreet's Arthur D. Whiteside; Industrialist John A. McCone...