Word: walling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rugged Shansi Province has for over two years been the key to the entire war in North China. Against it the Japanese have successively hurled three major campaigns and many little ones-all of which have blown up like light bulbs thrown against a wall. Because the province is as remote and vague to most U. S. readers as darkest Uganda, its news has either been undiscovered or shoved out of sight. But last week there reached the U. S. the report of a young visitor to this major theatre of China's struggle-first white man to visit...
General Kawamoto went to Shanghai for consultations, returned, begged the Marshal importunately. Firm as the Great Wall, Wu Pei-fu again refused...
...Wall Street Journal had a society editor, she would appreciate that company. There were tough, jut-jawed Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family...
...Wall Street banking house of Dillon, Read & Co., Fisk directors listened to a proposition from big, potent U. S. Rubber Co., nodded their heads in approval. U. S. Rubber offered to buy Fisk outright for $6,827,330 cash and 109,981 shares of U. S. Rubber Common, holders of Fisk's 34,738 preferred shares to get $110 a share cash (call price), holders of its 439,923 common shares $6.75 a share cash plus 1 share of U. S. Rubber common (last week priced about...
...made money every year. Though Sperry led in gyroscopic instruments, and Pioneer continued to make most of the magnetic compasses, engine gauges, accelerometers, etc.. Kollsman's pet patented altimeter soon copped nearly all of the altimeter market. He made many another fine dashboard instrument besides. Wall Street houses heard of him, urged that he issue stock to finance expansion. Shy Bachelor Paul Kollsman declined, continued to pile earnings back into the company...