Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solid Senders in Chicago. When traffic lights in Chicago's Loop flash red Saturday night, cars often line up for a solid block. At the Sherman Hotel, customers stand eight deep at the long Celtic Bar; downstairs in the Panther Room, where a normal New Year's crowd is 1,100, nearly 2,500 swing-loving youngsters cramp in to hear the solid-sending of Glenn Miller's band...
Since it is Dr. Cramer's opinion that if the war continues to block the outside resources, of rubber there will be none available for civilian uses until 1945, this popular lecture should appeal to the layman as well as the scientist...
...Francisco are feeling the same feeling that a chicken might feel as it looks up from the block-and waits...
...Army's stumbling block is training facilities for pilots. Of potential manpower there is aplenty. In Bangor, Beloit and Berkeley young men with sound bodies and good heads, who had passed their mental and physical examinations, cooled their heels at home, waiting to be called...
...Hamm gave injections of the hormone to seven old men with the same good results. All showed "a general improvement in mental and physical endurance." One man of 75, who for five years could not walk hall a block after lunch without an attack, now walks four or five blocks with no trouble. Others climb several flights of stairs, work longer hours, have a complexion of "healthy pink" instead of grey. The injections of the hormone are so small, said Dr. Hamm, that none of the old men felt any sexual stimulation. Unlike the "dynamite" pills, testosterone works very gradually...