Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further proof that the theft was by no means an undergraduate prank lay in the discovery that the picture wires were neatly cut at the locker doors which held them to the wall. Such handicraft requires tools, investigators said...
...Secretariat, a 39-story office skyscraper towering above the long low assembly building, looked more like an ice-cream sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of 2,700 windows held by a tracery of aluminum. Their effect, said the FORUM, would be that of "a mosaic reflecting the sky from a thousand facets...
...Wall Streeters have had an uneasy feeling about long holiday weekends ever since 1946. That year, after a three-day Labor Day weekend, they came back to work in a restful and unsuspecting mood, only to see the big wartime bull market collapse in six days of heavy selling. Last week, after the three-day Memorial Day weekend, they came back feeling pretty nervous. They had reason...
...usual, Wall Streeters could give no solid reason for the selling. It simply looked as if investors, watching the creeping inroads of the "slide," had finally decided that U.S. business was headed for more serious trouble. But businessmen did not seem to be nearly as worried as the investors who had unloaded their stocks...
...face of this optimism, some Wall Streeters wondered if the market might not have oversold its pessimism. Investors had not paid much attention to record profits in the last two years, because a large percentage of the profit went for company expansion instead of dividends. Now, as expansion programs were completed, more & more companies were boosting their dividends. And rising dividends, as Barren's financial weekly pointed out, "are hardly the hallmark of a deep depression...