Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Penitentiary at Salt Lake City one dawn last week, hooded and clutching a crucifix after a last-minute shift from Mormonism to Roman Catholicism, Delbert Green was led out into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired...
...tractor appliances like cranes, ranches, road scrapers. Another Wood "industry" includes tanks for milk, fuel oil and gasoline trucks. Still another ''industry'' is air conditioning, which the Woods entered in 1930 with the first oil burner furnace designed and built as a unit. Additional space wall soon be added to the Woods' Highland Park plant to take care of its booming air-conditioning business. The Woods also make automobile accessories like heaters, and last year acquired rights to William B. Stout's light, streamlined 24-passenger bus body. Only Wood enterprise not included...
...chain as a Paramount subsidiary. Now 48, reserved, deliberate, hardworking, he lives on Chicago's North Shore, is active in Jewish affairs, takes a great interest in the Chicago Riding Club and the Arlington (Ill.) race track, both of which he helped found. Taking a sly poke at Wall Street's various unsuccessful attempts to run a Hollywood enterprise, Barney Balaban declared last week: "It is a source of confidence to find the board of directors giving due recognition to the necessity of having experienced men in the industry and in important positions in the management...
...this end, some of Wall Street's ablest have exerted themselves through four years of financial diplomacy. The debenture holders' protective committee, headed by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, formed only a month after Kreuger's suicide, entered a race to find assets where it was generally believed that no assets existed. A Committee of Investigation appointed by the Swedish Government early reported: "Our examination has reached the point where we can state definitely that there will be little, if anything, for distribution to unsecured creditors...
...Without waiting for consequences, he makes tracks for his native town, where he is soon in trouble with the police for editing a smut magazine. Further adventures include bumming, bootlegging, another enlistment in the Army, a book of poems which lands him a job in Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down to run a bookshop, like his Dad, and marries the patient girl who has been waiting for him. Author Paul makes boisterous fun of every U. S. institution and human type his hero encounters, and occasionally his slapstick...