Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toledo last week bullfight officials were faced with that old problem and brought forth a new solution. The fourth bull of the corrida had charged out of the toril, thundered after the first cape it saw, and. then plunged headlong into the protective wall with a shock that quivered spectators from sombra to sol. After that, the bull just did not seem interested in anything. Matador Julio Aparicio, although the bull was his responsibility, made no move to dispatch him. When all else failed, the president of the ring sent a quick message to the chief ring attendant. The gate...
...tidying trends, sorting statistics, and issuing no-nonsense judgments as wholesome and tart as mince pie. With such forthright energy, the New York Post's Sylvia Porter has made herself the most widely quoted financial writer in the U.S. Her column, "Your Dollar," is studied by Wall Street brokers, Washington economists, Chicago bankers and budget-conscious families from coast to coast. Under the impact of the recession, "Your Dollar's" syndication has almost doubled in the past year, is now printed in 220 papers...
Married to a young economist named Reed R. Porter, Sylvia landed a job with a Wall Street broker who packed her off to Bermuda with ten suitcases containing $175,000 in gold coin just before the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1933. Sylvia sold the gold for pounds, purchased British bonds, brought them back to the U.S., turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline...
...Wall Street's experts laid much of the reason for the jump to increased buying pressure from such big investors as mutual funds (which now hold some 4% of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange) and pension funds. Another major reason was that the analysts themselves were changing their gloomy tune and encouraging many a holdout bear to hurry into the market for fear of missing it altogether. In the subtle psychological change, the weight of opinion was against any sharp break back to the recession lows. Instead, Wall Street's shrewd professionals speculated that...
From maps of the sky, with sky coordinates, the students proceed as the ancients did to mapping the earth, and they learn how a spherical surface is translated onto a flat piece of oak tag. Large wall maps are one tangible result of this project, maps accurate to a degree that would please even Frederick Merk...