Word: walls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guys," said Costello, "what's going on here? Line up against the wall...
...kids faced the wall, and Costello, Kelly and Rochman frisked them skillfully. There were no weapons. The kids snickered...
...biggest break came in the new 2⅝% interest bonds which came out fortnight ago (TIME, June 23). Many Wall Streeters touted the bonds as sure to rise, as other recent Government issues have risen. Demand was so great that New York City banks' loans to brokers against Government obligations (which helped the brokers to carry the thinly margined speculators) hit a twelve-year high of $1,357,000,000. Just after the bonds came out, they hit 100½. But by last week the bonds had skidded a full point to 99½, due largely to rumors that...
...shake-out of the speculators, the bonds hardened a bit. Reason for the rise was the announcement that the Federal Reserve Board had just bought the year's high of $269 million worth of Government securities, which pumped more lending power into the banking system. That assured Wall Streeters that the Fed had no intention-at least for the time-of reversing its easy-money policy...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...