Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been lost at Hengyang. The Jap had been delayed and suffered costly losses. The Chinese and their flying American allies fought on to block a juncture between the enemy advancing from the north and the enemy stalled in the south 40 miles above Canton. The Chinese were convinced that the Japs would persist in their campaign to bring the entire railroad under their control, and thus cut China in two. They were equally convinced that the outside world did not appreciate the seriousness of the threat...
Aerovias Braniff's request for permission to fly into the U.S. will add another problem to the Civil Aeronautics Board's crowded docket. Under the Good Neighbor policy, the U.S. cannot gracefully block a Mexican company from entering the U.S., if U.S. lines are to enjoy the right to fly into Mexico. But if Tom Braniff's Aerovias Braniff is allowed to cross the border, other U.S.-controlled Mexican companies may naturally be expected to apply for routes to the U.S. The result might be to create more lines than, potential traffic warrants...
Step Three. "Somebody go get a four-block charge of TNT," said the marine sergeant, who hadn't put much faith in his linguist's coaxing ability in the first place. At this point an armored bulldozer, piloted by a young Seabee, rumbled through the underbrush. The sergeant explained the situation to him. The bulldozer man drove his blade into the earth and started to push dirt from the ground level into the quarry where it fell across the mouth of the cave...
...four-block charge of TNT blew black dust high into the air and made a terrific noise. Big waves of black smoke and debris billowed out of the cave. But this was a well-constructed hole which went deep into the earth and heaven knows how far back. About all that came to the surface was the wooden framing of two-inch planks and a cheap suitcase filled with shirts and silk underwear and an empty cloth pocketbook...
...businessmen-in-service, sick of Washington and full of nostalgia for businesslike operations, have fled the capital for their old jobs. Fortnight ago WPB's Deputy Vice Chairman for Metals Howard Young resumed the presidency of American Zinc Lead and Smelting Co. Assistant WPB Steel Director Joseph L. Block has returned to the executive vice-presidency of Inland Steel Co. Others are shifting uneasily behind their desks as they shuffle the piles of paper from the In-box to the Outbox. More & more U.S. businessmen feel that the U.S. is getting very close to the shift toward large-scale...