Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that same moment, sentries on an opposite corner of the wall rubbed their eyes. A flock of black sheep was emerging from the night like a moving blot. When the animals reached the wide moat in front of the wall they plunged in, began swimming across; yet there were no visible herdsmen. A sentry fired into the flock. One of the dark objects in the moat erupted in a geyser of flame and water. Then men on the wall witnessed an amazing thing: some of the sheep seemed to be flipping off their black wool skins and running away...
Then violence broke out. In South St. Paul there were bloody clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...
Just after lunch on Friday last week, Wall Streeters were seized with joy. Traders in the New York Stock Exchange cheered, jumped up & down, and thumped each other. Reason for excitement: the Dow-Jones industrial average had broken through its previous high mark of 187.66 -made in 1947-as the rail average had done 19 weeks before (TIME, April 19). Under the famed Dow theory, which many traders swear by, that meant only one thing: a bull market...
When Hollywood committed itself on the issue of communism last fall, under the pressure of Congress and Wall Street, every major West Coast studio rushed home, hoping to be the first to register priority on the film title "The Iron Curtain" for future production. Twentieth-Century Fox won the footrace and subsequently assigned a Mr. Milton Krims to fill in the required screen play. The same Mr. Krims can be significantly remembered for his other scenario--"Confessions of a Nazi Spy." The sure fire true story of the Canadian Soviet spy ring naturally presented itself as his answer: the results...
Milton's 2,500 graduates include 15 Forbeses, four Cabots, eight Coolidges, five Saltonstalls, nine Welds. Most Milton alumni go to Harvard, and State Street (Boston's Wall Street) is full of them. Besides the proper Bostonians, Milton's roster includes Poet T. S. Eliot, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Diplomat William Phillips, Dr. (and ex-All America) Barry Wood, Principal William G. Saltonstall of Exeter. The manufacturer of Thayer's Slippery Elm Lozenges, the designer of three America's Cup-winning yachts, and a British M.P. are all old Miltonians. On Admiral Byrd...