Word: walling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capacity as head of the largest exchange in the country, Martin has taken particular interest in the Stock Exchange Institute, a school which trains men between the ages of 16 and 35 for the brokerage business. In this Wall Street School the 1200 students learn the fine points of practical economics from outstanding authorities...
...came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed the blessings of the miracle of deliverance, and witnesses of the event took pains to sidle along the banister as far removed as possible from the wall of dripping doom. It seems a bit inconsistent of the University to rope off countless areas in the spring just to tear off a few shingles, and now when Nature's guillotines are threatening to eradicate us all, they are just sitting there in University Hall with all their catalogues...
Though businessmen were highly vocal, the ultimate index of their attitudes-the stockmarket-showed no response one way or the other. For this the reason was clear: the new trade treaty has been in the wind for several months and Wall Street discounted it in advance by rising, knowing that, though certain individual concerns might be hurt, any broad revival of international trade could not help but benefit U. S. industry as a whole...
...share for each six now held 156,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. common at $20 a share (last week's market price: $33). It will be the first new financing by an important aviation company since Boeing raised $3,789,600 in June 1937. Rearmament-conscious Wall Street thought other cash-shy aircraft manufacturers might follow the Martin lead...
Meanwhile Stanford piled up three times their opponents yardage and, by the last period, they had broken down the Dartmouth forward wall and were gaining at will. Easterners had hoped to crack the mythical "bigger and betterness" complex of western gridmen, and now they have got some explaining...