Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Italians moved unhappily beneath the weight of their historic decision, which they neither wanted to make, nor felt adequate to face. On a wall outside Naples one Italian trying to escape the inescapable had scrawled: "Viva questi, viva quelli, viva chi vince, viva noi!" ("Long live these, long live those, long live whoever wins, long live...
...there anything else?" demanded the prosecutor. There was nothing. He gestured toward the guards. Yoshiko, upon order, faced about and walked nine paces forward. A guard with a rifle came up behind her. "Kneel down," he shouted. The echo rang out from the prison wall. Yoshiko knelt with the poise of a girl being introduced at court. The guard raised his gun, fired one shot into the back of her head. Yoshiko pitched awkwardly on her face. The morning...
...stocks at their lows, had failed to drive prices down. Whether the market had the strength for a further shove upward was still to be shown. At week's end, with the Dow-Jones industrials up only .83 for the week's 5,710,000-share turnover, Wall Street's crystal ball was still as cloudy as ever. This week it was further clouded by a strike of the Big Board and Curb Exchange's A.F.L. floor workers. Members had to pinch-hit at running errands and quoting prices...
Except for 25,000 tons of structural steel framework (which were thoroughly coated with bright aluminum paint), almost the whole plant is made of aluminum -three miles of wall paneling, 2,000,000 square feet of roof sheeting, 500,000 square feet of window sash, 1,340 miles of wiring, 98 miles of conduit and 6,800 lighting fixtures, all surrounded by the longest aluminum fence (four miles) ever made. Even the 112 workers' homes outside the fence are built of aluminum...
This has caused speculators to believe that the "breakout," when it finally comes, whether up or down, will be a big one. After last week's rise, many a Wall Streeter was betting that the break will...