Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried on systematic campaigns against English politicians in the past, native good nature suffused his drawings of them: Eden always looked timid and well-meaning; Squire Baldwin crafty and battered but not dangerous; Lloyd George disarmingly arch and jolly even when, by Cartoonist Low's lights...
...sand hogs with hand extinguishers, firemen who braved the terrific pressure to attack it with hoses. After a grim night of defeat, tunnel engineers resorted to extraordinary tactics. Slowly, pound by pound, they began reducing the air pressure in the fire-swept section. Just as slowly, the air wall gave way and the river it had been holding out began to muck in. In half an hour, it half-filled the section, doused the fire...
...filed an appeal before May 21. Recalling that FTC's order ending "Pittsburgh Plus" had never been challenged, since the company consented to the action, Big Steel hastened to file an appeal against this 14-year-old cease-&-desist. By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall. All that was needed to make Big Steel jump again was the creation of President Roosevelt's Monopoly Investigation. Its first meeting was scheduled for last week and it was common gossip that U. S. Steel Corp. was No. 1 on its agenda...
Among the many superstitions of big-league baseball players is the belief that the teams in first place on July 4 will win the pennants. Last week Wall Street traders seemingly fought to see which could get the highest batting average before the holiday. As brokers raced from post to post, the ticker day after day fell behind. Volume reached new peaks as the public all over the U. S. began buying. One day, 1,090,000 shares changed hands in the first hour-heaviest trading in nine months. June, which had promised to produce the thinnest trading since...
...years ago a graduating Yaleman named William McChesney Martin Jr. polled three votes as "most likely to succeed'' in his class. Last week 31-year-old Bill Martin was unanimously elected to the No. 1 financial job of Wall Street- president of the New York Stock Exchange. To the general public, which had heard rumors that the Exchange was considering for its first paid president such assorted personages as North Carolina's onetime Governor O. Max Gardner ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley, and University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, this was something of a surprise. To Wall...