Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then & there General Mills planked down $1,000,000 for an abandoned two-block plant in Minneapolis, enough precision machinery to fill it and more headaches than the company had in 80 years of flour-milling. Sample: huge, 20-ft. high, 800-part Naval gunsights (parts must be machined to within 1/10,000 of an inch), which are perhaps the most complex type of Naval ordnance in production. General Mills upped its engineering-inventing staff from five to 100, increased ordnance employment from 50 to 1,500-and listened carefully to Navy advice...
...Continent began as a pip-squeak Minnesota-Dakota mail carrier, got nowhere until 1936 when rich Thomas Fortune Ryan III bought a big block of the common stock. Ambitious Tom Ryan started romping all over the place, wound up with 6,700 flight miles from Minneapolis (Northwest's home plate) to Huron, S.C., to Tulsa and to St. Louis. Then he applied for routes to New Orleans, other points...
...example for reorganization of the world. He goes far back in American history to describe the development of unity in the Americas (Simón Bolivar, he says, was the spiritual founder of this ideal). Among the obstacles to this ideal, he singles out "the greatest stumbling block in the way of genuine inter-Americanism": the Monroe Doctrine, as it has been interpreted by the U.S. through the years...
...make him any part of an authority on Australia in particular or the Far East in general. Nor did it introduce him to the wiles and subtleties of international diplomacy. In fact, it hasn't been of sufficient substances to withstand the ill effects of the "Belgian Paving Block Scandal" in which it was charged, though never proved, that New York City workers had used paving blocks belonging to the city to build up Flynn's private home. The scandal has been instrumental in making Flynn a definite liability to the Democratic party...
Life on the Lam. Every time one of them went to a grocery another trailed a half block behind, with a sawed-off shot gun under his coat. This was double protection : against the cops or a double cross...