Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars bristle before public buildings and jeep-mounted recoilless 106-mm. guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
...historic week for Wall Streeters. Led by such blue chips as U.S. Steel and Standard Oil (N.J.), the Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 520 level that has been a barrier three times before, climbed to an alltime record high of 526.57 before settling back to 526.43. What gave the market its record-breaking push was the same combination of improving business news, institutional buying and fear of inflation that has sent it on one of the steepest climbs in history...
...mutual funds alone have increased from 74 in 1946 to 146; new money flowing into these funds has totaled more than $5.5 billion since 1946. Individual investors have also come into the market in increasing numbers; there are 8,630,000 today, v. 6,500,000 in 1952. Thus Wall Streeters, who traditionally measure stocks by earnings and dividends, are now using a new factor-the supply of new money-to determine what stocks will do next...
...spite of an exceptionally deceptive T attack in the Jumbo backfield, the forward wall of Stu Hershon, captain Bob Shaunessy, Jim Keating, Bob Foster, Harold Anderson, Pete Briggs, and Hal Keohane stood its ground and brought down any ballcarriers who happened to come their way, without needing much help from the secondary...
...this climactic day, the little arched stone bridge over the Thames was jammed bumper-to-bumper with Morrises, Minxes, and Jaguars. The little British Railways station was jammed; three times the normal services was provided for the throngs. And in the huge wall tent which covered the Harvard shells and served as a temporary resting place, the tension rose...