Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called big businessmen the "dervishes of Wall St." He rasped that Hugh Johnson had "mental saddle sores." He lampooned Wendell Willkie as the "barefoot Wall Street lawyer." He even fought with Harry Hopkins and earned Cordell Hull's cold antagonism by blasting away at Fascism long before...
Racquets, fastest of all games played on foot, nearly twice as fast as squash racquets, is also one of the rarest. In the U.S., where a few hundred play it, only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet...
Everybody else was talking about the United Nations' new home in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), so why not architects? Last week gallerygoers at Manhattan's up-to-the-minute Museum of Modern Art were confronted with outsize placards: MUST WE REPEAT THE GENEVA FIASCO? On the wall were architectural drawings that had been entered in the international competition in 1927 for a Geneva palace for the old League of Nations. Above them was an ominous legend: "The Competition Failed. The Building Failed. The League Failed...
...what caused Wall Streeters to raise their brows in the whole affair was the manner in which Andy Higgins was cashing in by going out of business. Never a big moneymaker in prewar years (Higgins Industries made a net profit of only $31,748 in 1939), Higgins Industries had grown fat on war orders for ships. The stock plan would render this fat into cash...
Sniffing the heady air of inflation. Wall Streeters found almost all news good news last week. Though the steel strike squeezed off production in plant after plant, the market pushed right on up. In the climb, both cheap stocks and blue chips scampered. Du Pont hit 204 for the first time since...