Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence, they are also the least developed politically. In Nigeria most Moslems are so strict they regard the rest of their co-religionists except the Saudi Arabians as backsliding apostates. Women are not even allowed in the presence of a judge; they must speak through a lattice in the wall to a court attendant, who relays their statements to the court...
...Kelly to Fritz Kuhn and his Nazi German-American Bund, as well as behind-the-scenes sleuthing heroes at work in the FBI's Quantico, Va. laboratories. From secret files came a sequence of rare excitement. Filmed by G-men through a transparent mirror in his office wall, it showed German Spy Frederick Joubert Duquesne clandestinely removing diagrams of the M-1 rifle from his sock...
Anyone who searched the U.S. economy last week could find evidence to support almost every shade of opinion, from rose to deepening blue. The statistics, as they have been for months, were mixed. Yet an increasing number of businessmen-and many more Wall Streeters-seemed to be looking only at the dark spots...
...Jones industrials average. But as the week progressed, a new report on railroad freight-car loadings showed a sharp drop to 703,688 cars for the week or 13.8% below 1956 levels; loadings of grain, ore and manufactured goods were all down. What worried Wall Streeters was the fact that freight-car loadings normally increase until the end of October, then fall off steadily until year's end. This year the decline started several weeks early, due largely, according to the Association of American Railroads, to "a general falling off in the level of business." In a twinkling...
...best-kept secrets in U.S. business history burst into the open last week. After months of top-level discussion that leaked neither to Wall Street, the U.S. Government or even many of their own officers, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central-the nation's two biggest railroads-announced that they are considering a merger that would be the biggest corporate marriage ever. Said Pennsy President James M. Symes and Central President Alfred E. Perlman: "Preliminary studies and discussions indicate that substantial benefits to all concerned may result from such a merger...