Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rather proud of himself, Secretary Wilbur proceeded to Las Vegas, N. M. where he joined Carl Raymond Gray, Union Pacific System's president and then on to Hoover Dam. There he exploded the first charge of dynamite in Black Canyon's wall for the 4,000 ft. diversion tunnels which will carry the Colorado River around the dam site during construction...
Like two perspiring miners pickaxing toward each other from opposite sides of a stone wall were President Herbert Hoover and Premier Pierre Laval of France last week. They yearned, they slaved to clasp hands. From day to day the lessening thickness of the wall of disagreement could be measured in millions of dollars...
...France completely rebuffed President Hoover, the wall would have been $97,000.000 thick?that being the total sacrifice he invited France to make (TIME, July 6). But early last week France and the U. S. agreed on a procedure to postpone for one year the "postponable annuities" owed France by Germany. This thinned the wall to ap-proximately
Spitting figuratively on his hands, each pickaxman soon hewed concessions from his own side of the wall. President Hoover conceded that Germany must continue to pay. France conceded that she will not keep what Germany pays but will loan it back to Germany through the Bank for International Settlements...
...this time the wall of discord, so the hewers said, had thinned to only