Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triforium gallery above the vast nave; scan the splendid cler-estory windows, heavy with tracery and mullions, highly effective in minimizing the light, and sealed hermetically shut. Pass down the corridors, and cry out in rapt adoration of more color, more carving, more corbels, more plaques, balconies, chandeliers, wall brackets (electric, in the style of ancient torch holders), a book, how your head in holy ecstasy...
This being the Machine Age, the Machine Maker might appear to be top dog in the industrial heap. But this does not necessarily follow. When, last week, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. proposed to absorb Advance-Rumely Corp., only the man in Wall Street seemed greatly con- cerned. Allis-Chalmers follows only General Electric and Westinghouse in the field of large electrical equipment, manufactures also a diversified line of farm machinery and machines for general industrial use. World's largest hydroelectric unit is the 70,000-horsepower engine built by Allis-Chalmers for Niagara Falls Power Co. Yet even...
...More Plum, When such financially august gentlemen were elected to the Board it was certain that the ghost would be laid. But there soon was evidence that it was a trying party. In Wall Street there is a phrase well known among bankers-"O. P. M." which means "Other Peoples' Money." Usually O. P. M. is used to solve problems, but in the Fox case although a total of $75,000,000 was put up last week, only $30,000,000 was 0. P. M., obtained by selling new bonds to the public. And Fox stock instead of being...
...company has surrendered one-tenth of its equity in Loew's, also sole voting power for its Loew's stock. The bankers have apparently temporarily invested $45,000,000 in the Fox structure, although they are expected to sell these holdings to the public later. Yet Wall Street last week was inclined to view the whole affair as masterful handling of a tremendous problem. Men shuddered to think of what would have happened to the stock and bond markets had Fox defaulted on a $55,000,000 issue...
Then there are standard quarts and bushels, standard tin cans and hotel dishes, machines which weigh an electron, others which weigh bridges. They bend steel girders at the bureau and blow up steel tanks. One device, an interferometer, indicates how far a 40-in. brick wall is deflected by the pressure of one hand. They have an ultramicrometer which measures a movement of one-millionth part of an inch. But it is "too sensitive for any known...