Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British are having to sink or swim in their effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom has its back to the wall in its Spartan efforts to climb out of the slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they are but allowed in their own way to put the best face on it they can, the country must eventually be able to stand again...
Lukens Steel Co. is a 147-year-old company, largely family-owned, that never caused much stir outside Coatesville, Pa. (pop. 15,000), where its plant is the mainstay of the community. But in recent months in Wall Street, Lukens Steel has become not only a well-known but a very puzzling company. Twice in the last fortnight the New York Stock Exchange has had to suspend trading in Lukens stock-first because of a rush to sell, later because of a scramble to buy. Last week the Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission stepped...
...been going on all week. His suspicions were further aroused when, that afternoon, Webster offered to buy him a Thanksgiving turkey. "It was the first time that Dr. Webster ever gave me anything," he said, and accepted the turkey with pleasure. Thursday afternoon he started to dig through the wall, with Mrs. Littlefield acting as watch...
...police had investigated the building, they asked if there were any place in it that they had not yet examined. Littlefield replied that the only unsearched area was in a cellar directly under Webster's lower laboratory and privy, and that they would have to cut through a stone wall to look there. They declined to go to such effort on such an unlikely chance...
...Friday he continued the project, after telling two of the faculty members about it. With his wife again watching, he finally got through the wall. "I managed to get my light and my head into the hole, and then I was not disturbed with the draft. I held my light forward, and the first thing which I saw was the pelvis of a man, and two parts of a leg. I knew that it was no place for these things...