Word: walls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Union Pacific and Southern Pacific streamliners and the Santa Fe's Chief, is a new Pullman creation-the "roomette." Occupying a little over the space of one section (upper & lower berths), it is a miniature compartment with a sliding metal door, a real bed which folds into the wall giving ample room for vertical dressing. The bed is 6 ft., 5 in. long, four inches more than the present standard berth. The roomette also has built-in toilet and closet, individual heating and ventilation. During the day the folded bed makes a sofa...
...Only Lincoln portrait now in the White House is one by William Cogswell, hanging on the north wall of the State dining room...
Since that was what Mr. Vanderlip wanted, the proxy fight ended there & then. A Harvard graduate (class of 1930), lively young Frank Vanderlip maintains offices at No. 52 Wall Street with his father, now 72. United in financial affairs, Vanderlip Jr. and Sr. parted on the subject of Prohibition. WThen old Frank became chairman of the national advisory board of the Crusaders (Wets) in 1933, young Frank joined the Citizens' Legion (Drys) within 24 hours. No family row developed, however, and young Frank never signed an abstinence pledge...
...what the criteria for major sports really are. For if a game like basketball, which is played indoors before a relatively small band of rooters, is to merit the award that is given to football, which thousands gather to witness, or crew, for which a half of Wall Street goes on a regular Roman holiday, clearly some other consideration than the excitements and the crowds seems to govern the selection of sports for the major...
...Muncie, Ind. last week went the Wall Street Journal's able young Cincinnati correspondent, Harlan V. Hadley, to see if he could put at rest some rumors which had been agitating Wall Street for the past fortnight. It was not the first Muncie assignment for Newshawk Hadley. After Muncie's George Alexander Ball was unexpectedly boosted into the driver's seat of Midamerica Corp. last November following the death of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (TIME, Nov. 30), he interviewed the aging fruit-jar maker about his plans for that corporate...