Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East. He formerly received $90,000 a year. His new salary was not revealed. Hale Holden, whose $150,000 salary was recently cut 10%, will receive another 10% cut to gether with all other S. P. men getting $10,000 or more. Completely shelved by the changes wall be Henry Wheeler De Forest, board chairman. His position will be abolished although he remains a director and on the executive committee. Net result of the changes, putting Hale Holden in supreme command, follows the trend of all roads toward simplification of control...
...with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus' enclosure. With a snort of rage, Big Nick charged his prostrate keeper, trampled him, gored him with short, sharp horns. One John Downey, visitor at the zoo, heard Keeper Mott's screams, picked up rocks and an iron bar, fought...
Five stories below Wall Street are the vaults of the U. S. Assay Office. How they protect the gold stored within them is a closely guarded secret. Since the bomb explosion of 1920, which occurred while the building was being erected, the Assay Office has allowed no visitors within its portals, no customers behind its desks...
Last week the Assay Office was being moved into new quarters. Wall Street felt glad to be rid of it, for noxious fumes have belched from its ungainly chimney. To complete the moving, a billion dollars worth of gold and $70,000,000 in silver will have to be transported to the new building at South Street and Old Slip. The date and method of the moving were kept tomb-secret, although officials publicly estimated that it would take from 13 to 26 days. Also secret is the nature of the construction of the new building's great vaults...
Habana y Trenton. American Cigar Co., now a subsidiary of American To bacco Co., last week was jumping the U. S. tariff wall. The duty on finished cigars is greater than that on raw tobacco, so certain of American Cigar's factories are being moved to Trenton, N. J., where it is expected that better labor conditions will also lower production costs. The raw tobacco will be cured, processed, stripped, blended and rolled in Havana, then shipped to Trenton under bond. Factories being moved include Havana Cigar & Tobacco Factories, Ltd., H. de Cabanas y Carbajal and others, all controlled...