Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to accommodate those who applied after the August 1st deadline a variety of arrangements have been made. The larger part live at home. For the others there is one Hall outside the Yard and a block of rooms is reserved in Apley...
...National Scholarship winners are: Philip W. Anderson, Urbana, Illinois; Burton P. Block, Fountain City, Tennessee; William J. Bouwsma, Lincoln, Nebraska; John B. Bowman, Alliance, Ohio; Gordon M. Browne Jr., St. Louis, Missouri; George M. Burditt, Jr., LaGrange, Illinois; John J. Butler, Highwood, Illinois; John E. Corrigan, Jr., Chicago, Illinois; Joseph D. Grandine, Crandon, Wisconsin; Jackson E. Hardy, Santa...
...virtually eliminated; volume is 12 to 15% of pre-war levels. In Shorters Court, the dingy yard where 400 yelling traders often moiled till 10 p.m., there is now no trading at all, for "Yankees" (U. S. securities) formerly traded there are all Government-held. Two fire engines block the narrow passageway to Shorters. Throgmorton Street, a sort of Curb exchange for oil and mining shares, is empty too. In the idle House, the brokers drill four nights a week for home defense; by day they play Spitfire pools. These pay off on the number of "Jerrys" brought down...
...Patrick Cudahy was a Kilkenny Irishman who arrived in the U. S. at the age of six, got rich in the meat-packing business. His son and heir was John Clarence Cudahy, a ruddy chip off the old block, who supported Roosevelt before 1932 and by natural selection became a U. S. diplomat. Tall, leathery Mr. Cudahy had previously studied and practiced law, run his family's real-estate properties in Milwaukee, hunted big game, fought gallantly in World War I, written expansive prose about his adventures. Blessed with charm, a warm heart and full pockets, Mr. Cudahy...
Observers like Louis D. Brandeis (later Justice of the Supreme Court) thought at the time that the dissolution would not really block monopolistic practices. That suspicion has kept trustbusters sniffing at the tobacco companies ever since. Meanwhile the ex-members of the trust, competing boisterously on every front (notably advertising) save price, have multiplied the old trust's market and profit possibilities many times...