Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other theatre. Being behind, the screen image is reversed, and to return the image to normal a prism previously had to be mounted in the projector lens. This prism cut down the light by about 40 per cent, forced the screen to be pushed to the back wall, and made a "hot spot" of bright light in the center of the screen...
...Demand is feeding on success," said Lucien O. Hooper of Wall Street's W. E. Hutton & Co. It seemed an understatement indeed in a week when the stock market again surged to new highs, but it was the best explanation Wall Street had to offer for what has become the most spectacular phenomenon of the 1958 business recovery. On all but one day last week, stocks climbed to new records, closed the week at 564.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 10.42 for the week to an alltime record.* The Dow-Jones industrial average, most volatile...
...favorite guessing game on Wall Street these days is figuring how high the industrials would be if American Telephone & Telegraph had not been substituted in 1939 for International Business Machines. Since then, IBM has gone up from 191 to 5.588, counting splits and stock dividends, while A.T. & T. has gone only from 165 to 200%. Harold Clayton of Hemphill, Noyes calculates that the average would now be at 1830, and other experts figure it at 910. All used different short-cut computations. To get the correct figure, it would be necessary to recompute the Dow-Jones average for every market...
...along comes a man with money to burn and a wall to fill, and Guinness is off on one of the funniest half-hours he has ever played. When the millionaire takes a trip to Jamaica, Gulley without so much as a by-your-leave moves into his apartment and starts to paint a wall he has taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor...
Bets were taken from all over the University, by phone or in person, and odds posted on the wall. Once the cardboard gates were opened, the hungry mice ran for their prize, while hungry betters cheered for their chosen redent...