Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League's aims could be subscribed to by every good citizen. But when newshawks walked into his press conference, after ALL had appeared in headlines, Franklin Roosevelt was roaring with laughter. He told how that morning, while he sat in bed looking over the newspapers, he had seen that Wall Street was reported to regard the League as "the answer to a prayer" and he had laughed for ten minutes...
...plummet, no foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
...from Clarence Saunders, originator and onetime owner of Piggly Wiggly Stores. No novelty was the loss of a few hundred dollars to Clarence Saunders. In 1923, with "a bag of gold estimated at $4,000,000, he hired a special train, descended on Manhattan to trap the "Wall Street gamblers" who were selling Piggly Wiggly short. No sooner had he skyrocketed his stock from $40 to $150 than the Exchange discovered his corner, barred Piggly Wiggly, ruined Speculator Saunders. With $2,900 borrowed from an old employe, he built a second fortune on a chain of 250 Clarence Saunders Stores...
...that doctors despaired of keeping him alive unless he discovered some absorbing outdoor interest. Perry took a six months' leave from his job in a London sports shop, turned seriously to tennis, which he had taught himself on a public court in London by hitting a ball against a wall. By the time the six months were over, he had won a minor tournament at Chiswick Park, trounced Italy's No. 1, Baron Morpurgo, at Wimbledon, been selected for England's Davis Cup team, and defeated Jack Crawford in their first meeting at Bournemouth. That autumn Perry toured...
...merger for years, would undoubtedly like to try his hand at matchmaking if nothing comes of August's moon. Though Graham-Paige broke even last year, it would have as much to gain as to lose by merging. As for companies which have already gone to the wall like Franklin and Willys, merger is their main hope...