Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...37th Street Gromyko turned west through a block of millinery establishments, part of the great U.S. garment industry created largely by men & women who sprang from Gromyko's part of the world, and from a lowlier station in life than his had been...
...Navy has two types of airborne television transmitter, both developed in cooperation with RCA. One, called "Block," is light and expendable. It was developed primarily to serve as the "eyes" of various radio-guided bombs. The larger type, "Ring," can flash its pictures 200 miles...
...peacetime, RCA has plans for Block and Ring. They will spy on parades and sporting events, take television addicts on scenic tours...
Egypt was plagued with foreign wars and domestic turmoil; Nile transportation had broken down, and the supply of granite blocks from the upriver country had ceased. Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him. He was 6½ ft. tall...
...built ships; and 2) refunds to ship operators to reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling very many of these will not be easy...