Word: block
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth, 45-year-old Edward Nicholas will get a block of stock and a starting salary close to the $30,000 he drew down...
Flack termed the whole thing as a hoax, and said that he had no knowledge of the advertisement putting the college on the block which appeared recently in a New York newspaper. Shor ran across the ad two weeks ago, and in answer to his inquiries, received a letter signed by "W. R. Flack" which named $250,000 as the purchase price...
Last week the Oasis celebrated its 14th birthday. Proprietor Max Cohen had done well enough with "the worst night club in America" to buy up all the real estate for a block around...
...high winds, last week became a Commonwealth calamity. Thousands of miles of timberland were burned black. The fires raged in some areas on 40-mile fronts. In Melbourne, sweating under a temperature of 114° (see p. 29), smoke came down so thick that visibility was limited to a block. It was dark by 3 p.m. in the country. Much of Melbourne's watershed was devastated, increasing the probability that water consumption, already restricted because of the drought, would have to be further cut down...
...termination clause which was the last stumbling block in the path of conciliation, provides that the contract shall expire in six months, and will be automatically renewed unless one side gives notice of wanting to amend it at least 30 days before the contract expires...