Word: walling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Swank & Slot Machines. The 20-story, 400-room Havana Riviera (up to $40 a day for a double room) is a modern-style palace with egg-crate fagades, wall-to-wall marble, a 78-cabaña pool and ornate saloons. One of its prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest...
Anticipation of recession was scarier than the realization. When the production cuts finally started, the nation's mood gradually turned from nail-biting to cool appraisal. The quick shift in sentiment was clear on Wall Street, which for a change accurately reflected business opinion through 1957. In January and February, when the first gloom-sayers gave tongue, stocks tumbled 44 points to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Later, when it became apparent that the initial pessimism was overdone, the market soared to within only a quarter of a point of the alltime 521.05 high reached...
From Cuba, Gossipist Leonard Lyons reported upon a merry encounter with old friends: "The Havana tourist season hasn't started yet. 'That's why this is a good time for working,' Ernest Hemingway had told us earlier, at lunch at his home. On the wall was the mounted skin of the lion Mary Hemingway had shot in Africa. No bullet hole was evident. 'I'm almost embarrassed,' she smiled. 'I shot him while he was running away...
...October, when the price was about 19, he sold 50,000 shares to his wife in a complicated deal for estate purposes. Last month, when the price was as low as 15⅛, Young unloaded another 21,700 shares for tax purposes. Wall Street insiders figured that Bob Young's loss on the second transaction alone topped $100,000. Some of the Central directors who bought shares to help Young have also lost heavily. But the biggest loss has been incurred by Alleghany Corp., the holding company which helped Young take over the Central. Under Young's chairmanship...
KENT SALES BOOM is puffing up P. Lorillard Co. earnings so fast that Wall Streeters guess earnings may be as high as $2 a share this quarter v. 42? in fourth quarter of 1956 and $1.02 in this year's third quarter...