Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows whether impetuous Sergo Ordzhonikidze got a chance to raise hell in the Politburo, but he died shortly thereafter. In February 1937 he was buried with great pomp in the Kremlin wall, his flower-decked bier borne by Stalin. Molotov, Voroshilov and other top commissars. It was cautiously given out that he had died of heart failure, but rumor has consistently said since that he was murdered. In Russia his name became symbolic of the wreckage done to Soviet economy by Stalin and his gang in their struggle for power. Last week the Soviet government (run by Stalin...
...with the bluest chip stocks. Vermeer's Portrait of a Young Girl, recently on loan to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, cost $350,000; judged as real estate, it is worth $1,252 per sq. in. (v. $2.10 per sq. in. for the House of Morgan's Wall Street terrain). A Cezanne that could be bought for about $100 when it was first shown in 1895 today fetches around $113,000. Notes FORTUNE: "General Motors has done a little better than Cezanne, but not so well as Renoir; $100 invested in G.M. stock in 1909 would be worth...
...wall of air keeps warm air in the store, the cold outside; the system can be converted to cold air in summer. Kroger's 11-ft.-wide air curtain cost $7,500, will cost about 15? an hour to operate...
...cost of such damage was still uncertain late yesterday, according to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Roberts explained that if the wall and ceiling plaster dries well ever the night it will need comparatively few repairs. On the other hand, he said, the whole dining hall ceiling might fall in, necessitating a very expensive restoration...
Inside the restaurant Mrs. Patricia Chaprales, wife of the owner, was sitting at the cashier's desk with her back to the window. The flying glass did not injure her, but the buckling wall behind her did slightly. Ivan A. Hirsch 3L and Nancy Howes 3L, sitting at a table with their backs also to the window, were both shaken up, but escaped any injury...