Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakthrough, "the Germans could hardly move 25 miles in any direction on any railroad without meeting a block...
...week Congressional leaders learned that General Somervell was going to abandon the field, charge the whole business off to the "waste of war." Next step: Canada will have a chance to bid in the plant at a knockdown price. If Canada refuses it, Canol will be put on the block...
...city stretches, fortifications block the streets and byways. When I drove from Berlin it took me 90 minutes to travel six miles because the barricades are so thick it is difficult to pass them. . . . If everything goes 'according to plan,' one may predict Berlin's conquest will require six to eight weeks...
...when the late Samuel Insull's famed Hawthorn-Mellody Farms went on the block, complete with an Italian villa, John Cuneo plunked out $752,000 for them. In short order, they became Chicago's third largest supplier of milk...
...canal. If not exactly friends, these powers had become old familiars with whom Egypt could quarrel cozily whenever it became necessary to assert her dignity. Now a new, incalculable factor threatened to complicate the Suez Canal problem. The Soviet Union was reported to have quietly acquired a sizable block of Suez Canal shares seized by the Germans from Jews. At the next board meeting Russia might well demand that henceforth one of the canal's 32 directors be a Russian...