Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposite Vag was another granite wall, rising as steeply from the valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above...
...list of proposed emergency laws was the first draft of a bill presented by Labor Executive George Harrison to allow railroads to reorganize without entering the courts under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. This section, the roads' only present recourse when they go to the wall, is so phrased that not one of the 25 Class I roads to try it has succeeded in reorganizing because bondholders have been unable to agree with stockholders as to which will take the loss. Mr. Harrison proposes that upon application to a Federal district court certifying that it had reached...
...wished to show disapproval had only one way to do so: by scratching names off the ballots. The man whose name was scratched most-163 times-was shock-haired Broker Paul Vincent Shields of Shields & Co. For this the reason was clear: Broker Shields, more than any other Wall Streeter, is responsible for the Exchange's change of front...
...where his father was president of Dominion Iron & Steel Co. He graduated from Loyola, flunked out of Cornell Law, sold real estate, took a crack at investment banking and in 1923 went into the brokerage business for himself. Presently Shields & Co. was one of the largest wire houses in Wall Street with offices in 16 U. S. cities, four abroad. Paul Shields became something of a yachtsman and golfer, and his step-daughter married Gary Cooper, but reform in Wall Street remained his chief interest...
...photographs illustrating economic laws; the reviewer was baldish, bearded Critic Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously, "Ah, Johann Gutenberg!" Intermittently photographs from the book were flashed on the screen: pictures of the unemployed, of banks, of labor-saving machinery. Some were clear, some blurred, a few merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced solemnly that the greatest...