Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator Long frankly exclaimed; "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. That applies to the cotton for the Senator from Mississippi [Harrison] and to the sugar for the Senator from Louisiana [himself...
...Wall Streeters were telling each other the above story last week as a joke, a puzzler. But in several places throughout the land businessmen were seriously experimenting with new kinds of money to lubricate their local credit systems. In 140 communities in 29 states, 1.000,000 citizens were solving their problems notably through the use of scrip and the foundation of barter associations. Examples...
...different forward. A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water. Two cooks were working in the crew's galley when the wave struck. It stove in the door, ripped open a steel bulkhead, and as the cooks crouched by the wall drove the stove and two half-ton boilers straight through the rear bulkhead. Seaman H. J. Johnston of Portsmouth was in the alleyway. Fifteen minutes later when the water had ebbed enough for an officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall...
...tablet erected in the New Memorial Church to the memory of the three Harvard men who died during the World War fighting on the side of the Central Powers was moved again yesterday to a more conspicuous place on the east wall of the Church proper. The new position is almost opposite the main entrance to the Church and is in plain sight of all in the Church...
When the tablet was first set up in a spot under the northwest stairway it was decided to try several positions in an effort to find the most appropriate one. Later it was placed on the west side of the north wall in the main body of the Church...