Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Sale. Last week in Frankfurt the low comedy was taken seriously. On the block went the first Farben unit, the Kalle plant at Wiesbaden, reportedly valued at $6,000,000. It employs 2,200 and produces Cellophane, photographic papers and chemicals. The Military Government wanted to offer some 80% of the stock for sale to Germans, while 20% would be set aside for the foreigners who already owned an interest in Farben. The Military Government also announced that part of another great industrial empire, the Robert Bosch electrical equipment combine, was to be sold. It looked as if "something...
Davenport closed the ceremonies with a dramatic demonstration of the cyclotron's potency. He placed a block of metal that had been bombarded by the machine before a Geiger counter. A violent ticking from this machine showed that the block was radio-active...
...vehicle for Sarah Churchill, onetime chorus girl, WAAF officer and stage actress, and second daughter of Winston Churchill. It is also an inoffensive little picture-which is fortunate for U.S. moviegoers who may be curious to get a close-up look at this charming chip off a famous old block...
With the latest picture by the same team, the "Barkleys of Broadway," playing just a block away the invitation to comparison is a little too strong for this department's will power. Normally twelve year's experience and technicolor ought to make the "Barkleys" a better picture. They...
Father & Son. Amm-i-Dent is made by Jersey City's little-known Block Drug Co., founded 42 years ago and still very much bossed by taciturn Pharmacist Alexander Block, now 67. As chairman, Block cracks the whip over a family team-sons Melvin, 41, who is president; Leonard, 37, who handles the money, and daughter Betty's husband Albert Roberts, production boss. Together they boomed Block Drug to a gross of more than $10 million last year on 25 dental products (Poloris dental poultices, Polident denture cleaners...