Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing as solid as Gibraltar on the floor of his office a block from the Capital building, the former Harvard football captain began an uninterrupted discourse with a blast at interventionists who failed to sign up in the last...
Last week after ASCAP refused to sign a consent decree calling for the elimination of the self-perpetuating power of its board of directors, its blanket agreement by which it sells all its properties in block, its practice of pooling and dividing its income, the Department of Justice suddenly cut loose, decided to start criminal anti-trust proceedings not only against ASCAP, but against B. M. I., NBC, and CBS as well. Said Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold: "The Department is interested in seeing that neither ASCAP nor B. M. I. can get into a position that puts the public...
...vast California estate. In 1938 it was announced that part of his $50,000,000-or-so accumulation of antiques and art objects would be offered for sale. The bulk of this vast, amorphous agglomeration reposed in warehouses-four of them in California, the fifth, a five-story, block-square structure, in The Bronx. It included collections of 504 different kinds of works of art, any one of which would have made an ordinary collector notable...
...ever knows how many December stock transactions represent tax selling, but it was clear that many of this month's deals were made with March in mind. One day a block of 30,000 shares of New York, New Haven & Hartford was sold for $1,875 (6¼? a share), or $675 less than the seller (possibly Pennroad Corp.) had to pay in commissions and transfer taxes. Corn Products Refining Corp., which pays a $3 dividend and sold as high as $65.12 this year, went at a bargain near its eight-year...
Third to the chopping block was Admiral Domenico Cavagnari, Chief of Staff and Under Secretary of the Navy. If Albania was bad, what has happened to the Italian Fleet is horrible - whittled down in each & every encounter it has had with the British. To replace Cavagnari, Mussolini chose Admiral Arturo Riccardi, with Admiral Angelo Jacchino taking the new post of Commander of the Fleet...