Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia, Lyndon Johnson summoned news photographers to the Cabinet Room of the White House for a picture-taking session. What was the occasion? "I'll give you the caption later," the President told the puzzled cameramen. Minutes afterward-when the stock exchanges had closed for the day on Wall Street-Johnson sent for reporters. They assumed that he was going to brief them on his last-minute campaign swing. Instead, he began reading a prepared statement...
...addition to these scattered seats, there is seating space available on the fourth floor, in the conference rooms, and at the carels that fold out from the wall. These are almost never used, she said...
...Officers' Club, Westmoreland had assembled his combat commanders. There the President said: "General Westmoreland told me that you were the best Army ever. If this is the best Army, you are the best leaders. I thank you. I salute you. Come home with that coonskin on the wall...
...headline readers would normally conclude that the economy is in a bad way. But 1966 is anything but normal, and last week's news of lower profits in autos and steel failed to upset the relative optimism among chart watchers in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington-not to mention Wall Street...
...Steel's surprising dividend cheered Wall Street's professionals. So did a New York Times survey showing that the profits of 485 major companies rose by an average 6.7% in the first nine months; without General Motors, the average gain would have been 12.5%. Also bullish: reports from Washington and from the American Bankers' Association convention in San Francisco last week that the worst of the credit squeeze appears to be over; forecasts by the Commerce Department that in 1967 capital spending will increase by a healthy 8% and the gross national product will expand...