Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis; in Monte Ne, Ark. In 1900, when the Democrats abandoned their advocacy of free coinage of silver, Harvey moved to the Ozarks, began work on his proposed 130-ft. "Pyramid of America," in the vaults of which future archeologists were to find the history of U. S. civilization, Harvey's reasons for its downfall. When Depression halted work in 1932, Harvey organized the "Liberty Party," received 800 votes for President...
...tables. Capitol policemen in uniform circulated through the moving throng, trying to maintain order. A little knot of elderly financiers from Manhattan stood by themselves like new arrivals to be introduced at a large reception. And everywhere cameramen swarmed, climbed over one another, mounted chairs & tables, formed a living pyramid above half a dozen Senators who sat, all but lost from sight, at a long table at the end of the room...
...janitor at the station used to be a plumber", Dr. Clark said, "we decided to build our pyramid out of pipe, each aide being about fifteen feet long. Barrels supported and buoyed it. On top of this triangle a high tower was built, with the instruments at the top. No one believed the thing would float...
...view was the "telephone of the future," not slated for general service until two years hence. It is a self-contained unit, eliminating the black box screwed on the wall. On top of a small metal housing, shaped like a truncated pyramid, is a fork carrying the transmitter. Inside the housing is the ringing mechanism, two musical gongs which may be rung emphatically with a metal clapper or softly with a wooden one at the subscriber's whim. Recessed into the housing is the dial, which operates almost noiselessly...
That by no means completed the list of securities advertised by J. P. Morgan. In their desperate effort to shore up their cracking pyramid in 1930, the Van Sweringens scraped their strong boxes for such items as 196 shares of Long Lake Co.. 250 shares of Huron Fourth Co., a past-due note of Higbee Co. for $1,292,534, second mortgage bonds of Cleveland Terminals Building Co. now in default, a $2,595,399 subordinated note of Van Sweringen Corp, due last...