Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. businessman has wished that he was big enough to get in to see Elisha Walker in his official habitat: the austere offices of Wall Street's famed international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is senior partner. Stiff-starched Banker Walker is not an easy...
Harry Truman is not worried about George. He has "implicit confidence" in him. On the wall of George's office hangs a picture of the President which bears Harry Truman's accolade. The picture is inscribed in Harry Truman's angular hand: "My very best to a regular guy, my friend George Allen...
Then a heavy lead "coffin" rolled up the wall. Into it dropped an aluminum can to be taken to "hot cells" with yard-thick concrete walls. There, working with periscopes and tools which reached around corners, chemists would extract the isotopes it contained. All workers wore loose canvas covers over their shoes so that no "hot" particle could lodge in the leather and gnaw a dangerous lesion in their feet. The laboratory tables were topped with three-inch slabs of lead. Neatly stacked lead bricks gave additional protection to workers...
Using neither palette nor easel, Bonnard mixes his paints on a dinner plate, tacks his canvas on a wall. When a painting is finished, he trims away the extra canvas. Dealers have learned that a Bonnard picture never fits into a ready-made frame...
...Caffrey, 48, the SEC had a chairman Wall Street liked. A graduate of Harvard, Jim Caffrey had joined SEC in 1935 after twelve years of legal practice in his native Boston. He made a name for himself by handling more fraud cases than any other SEC man. He also made a name as a man who knew Wall Street's problems and talked its language, a man who regarded SEC strictly as a regulatory agency, not a political club. Most Wall Streeters thought they would get along fine with Jim Caffrey...