Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wall of water, with the weight of 230 million cu. ft. behind it, came surging down the narrow ravine, smashed into the village in a wave 20 ft. high. The stone bridge was swept away. The church was cut in two, and only the tower remained standing. All but 25 of the town's 150 houses were wiped...
...industry's big push is to warm the severe appearance of much modern furniture by mixing with it oriental lacquered furniture-lighter woods plus new materials and vivid fabrics. The industry is also bringing out a whole new line of "wall-hung" units-bookcases, hi-fi cabinets, cupboards, etc. Even children's furniture is being upgraded after 30 years of standard pink and blue finishes. Big Manhattan, Chicago and Detroit stores are laying in heavy stocks of specially designed children's furniture, scaled down in size from adult pieces...
...Depression clipped Eaton's wings but not his tongue. Railing at Wall Street and the "New York money ring," he became a New Dealer and pro-union, as well as a violent enemy of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft because Taft's early isolationism was "a policy as fantastic in theory as it is impossible in practice." Eaton prevented the Taft family from merging Cincinnati's Enquirer with their successful Times-Star by lending the employees $7,600,000 to buy the paper from the management...
Died. Joe Bologna, 79, little (5 ft. 1 in.) king of the Wall Street bootblacks; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. In 1896, 18-year-old Giuseppe Bologna left Castel-grande in Italy's southern Apennines, began shining shoes in Manhattan, where bootblacks worked a 15-hr. day and the top ones earned $4 a week. By 1902 Joe had returned to Italy, married, and was back in New York living with his wife and daughter in a $7-a-month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents...
...wears on, instances of man's, and even nature's ingratitude multiply. Gregg lures a diseased cat into the poorhouse grounds, and Prefect Conner orders it shot, increasing the murmurings against him. A truck loaded with Pepsi-Cola rams through a section of the compound's wall. Rain drives the inmates into the sitting room, where they cackle like a Greek chorus while Hook and Conner debate the merits of God v. scientific rationalism...