Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulatory code in the copper business will have to allow for: 1) a wide range of production costs between U. S. refineries; 2) new sources of cheap foreign copper, against which the Administration may not want to erect a higher tariff wall...
Since M. Bonnet and French Premier Edouard Daladier are the stiffest of gold standard twins, Wall Street understood Chairman Cox to mean that President Roosevelt had definitely decided not to resort to inflation, at least during the Conference. Promptly, on the theory that dollars, if sound, are not a bad investment, Wall Street sold stocks & commodities, caused their prices to decline. Alarmed, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin declared in Washington that the U. S. Delegation could not have agreed in London to even tentative dollar stabilization. This restored uncertainty-a bull point in WalI Street-and prices firmed...
...Mory's, the New Haven biers tube where Yale romantics like to think ''The Long, Long Trail" was written, Stod King's initials are carved on one of the big round table tops strung up around the wall. But his song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral...
Baltic Tapeworms. People who eat raw or inadequately cooked pickerel, wall-eyed pike or perch caught in lakes of the north central states risk infection by "broad" Baltic tapeworms, stated Dr. Thomas Byrd Magath of Rochester, Minn. Cooking or freezing kill the worm larvae which the fish harbor. Immigrants from Baltic countries first brought the worm to the U. S. Now in increasing numbers the U. S. is producing its own human verminaries...
Bernard Marcus, convicted president of Bank of United States (whose executive vice president, Saul Singer, last fortnight had a uniformed chauffeur deliver an oriental rug for his cell at Sing Sing) applied for transfer from Sing Sing to New York State's new wall-less, bar-less prison at Wallkill, which convicts call ''The Country Club." His application was denied because authorities feared his onetime depositors might protest. ∙ While fire swept through the second & third floors of his home near Baltimore. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald stopped rescuing furniture long enough to answer a newshawk...