Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of Manhattan's Squibb Gallery last week hung what was apparently a painting showing a number of little boys skating on ice. Behind this painting lay what seemed to be six window shades. Unrolled, they proved to be six separate paintings on specially woven flexible Dutch canvas that could be detached and placed separately about the walls. This device was the contribution of Artist Hilaire Hiler, 38, to the dilemma of art-lovers living in apartments which lack sufficient wall space to display canvases. Because the individual window shades are not unlike ancient Japanese kakemono paintings, Hilaire Hiler...
...apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated white powder. Pronounced the Department of Justice man: "The best bomb I have seen in many years of police work. Powerful enough to blast through an ordinary stone wall...
...when the Pittsburgh price was $40 per ton, a Chicago concern was paying $47.60 for steel made by its next door neighbor. The additional $7.60 represented freight charges on a ton of steel from Pittsburgh to Chicago. The steel actually purchased was trundled through a door in the wall between the buyer and seller...
...sympathy. Senator Borah marked the occasion by introducing still another bill intended to forbid selling more cheaply to large buyers than to small ones. Texas' Representative Patman cried: "You are the first victims of monopoly." Said Maryland's Senator Tydings: "Small business is being crushed to the wall in a deliberate campaign...
...difference in altitude between Wall Street and the Black Hills of South Dakota-5,300 ft.-is no greater than that between the ruck of stockmarket quotations and the price of stock in Homestake Mining Co., most eminent Black Hills business. Biggest and most consistently profitable gold mine in the U. S., Homestake rose during the Depression from. $65 per share in 1929 to a point where, at more than $300 per share in 1933, it was the highest-price active stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then it has continued upward to the rarefied levels...