Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman had thundered about the "privileged Wall Street gluttons." The "gluttons" last week looked more like frightened rabbits. As the G.O.P. defeat* became certain early Wednesday, panicky stockholders jammed the wires with orders to brokers to sell. By the time the New York Stock Exchange opened at 10 a.m., sell orders so far exceeded buy orders that initial transactions on many key stocks were delayed for as long as three hours...
...farther businessmen were from Wall Street, the less they were upset by the election. The Wall Street Journal surveyed the U.S. and found that no one was canceling expansion plans or retrenching. And many businessmen were less worried about price controls-even stand-by ones -than the fact that buyers were shying away from many items at present prices-and prices would have to come down anyway...
Small Bite? In short, many businessmen flatly disagreed with Wall Street's interpretation of what was going to happen. Some of them...
...Wood Shed. Fish had been sold at the market, originally a one-block stretch at the foot of Fulton Street just north of Wall Street, since 1821. But it was not till 1848 that the city built a wooden shed to house the fishmongers...
...Yankees and Washington Senators; by his own hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball...