Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better still, thousands of scabs jumped at the chance to take the empty jobs, and, owing to the moronic simplicity of driving new-fangled bell and button machines, tenants, even the Park Avenue Parasites, and the Wall Street Nepotes, quickly learned how to run their own elevators. So the strikers thought they had to resort to violence, breaking windows, bashing skulls, even battling the officers...
...high time" (to quote Mr. Walter Lippmann) that all this high-faluting hypocrisy be exposed. Public Health my claw! Let me quote and read between a headline from the Boston Traveler: "EMERGENCY DECLARED AS STRIKE NEARS WALL STREET." But not until then, you may be sure, for what is public health in America but the health of Wall Street, what prosperity but more opportunities for Them to rob the windows and orphans of elevator boys...
...figures, but that Democratic National Chairman was much too preoccupied to see the hefty young amateur. Hurja's service in that campaign was limited to a few menial political jobs performed for the late Terence F. McKeever, Tammany district leader. By 1932 Hurja knew his way around Wall Street better. Among his acquaintances were such men as Bernard Mannes Baruch, Bernard ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith and Frank C. Walker, Montana lawyer. Mr. Walker introduced Mr. Hurja and his sheets of figures to Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley. In June that year Mr. Hurja again served as delegate from...
...Gypsum made $3,491,000 in 1935 against $2,155,000 in 1934. As the U. S. Steel of its industry-it supplies 50% of the gypsum wall board, 50% of the gypsum plaster and 25% of the metal lath used in U. S. buildings-U. S. Gypsum is a No. 1 beneficiary of the prospective 1936 building boom. Marketeers, aware of Gypsum's bright prospects, last week valued the common at $108, about 43 times earnings...
...this was not a startling revelation, since one share of First National stock, now selling for $1,875 per share and paying $100 in dividends, represents a tidy little investment. During 1929 the stock sold above $8,500 per share, touched a Depression low of $800. What did catch Wall Street's eye was President Reynolds' comment: The number of one-share stock holders exceeds the total number of depositors. With deposits of $479,000,000, First National has less than 1,400 depositors, showing an average balance of at least $300,000. Fact is, First National...