Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ince, onetime publisher of Stage magazine, bought Theatre Arts (circ. 30,000), a Variety for highbrows. He invited MacArthur to run it. O.K., wired Mac, on 20 conditions (samples: get me twelve geniuses, move the office to Palm Springs, get Lana Turner as my secretary). He settled for a block of stock...
Ince had been planning to revive Stage (with backers that included Doris Duke and Real Estater William Zeckendorf) when he heard that Theatre Arts was on the block. He figured that it was cheaper to buy it (for about $40,000) and merge it with Stage than compete with it. When her magazine was sold out from under her, Theatre Arts' able Editor Rosamond Gilder, who had been combing Manhattan for a buyer herself, resigned. The new magazine, out in April, probably would be called The New Theatre Arts...
Standing demurely a block beyond the Law School, where Everett Street runs into Massachusetts Avenue, Sargent College of Physical Education for Women has been turning out energetic young gym instructresses for 66 years. From its modest origin in 1881, when Dr. Dudley A. Sargent opened a "Sanatory Gymnasium" on Church Street, Sargent has progressed steadily to a broad and varied curriculum, with a student body of 500. In 1904, the school moved from Church Street to the present site, and slipped under the wing of Boston University in 1929, where it has been ever since...
...time was 4:50 p.m. The 1,200 prisoners had finished supper. In Cell Block No. 6, known as Little Siberia, where Warden Best keeps the toughest 232 of his charges, a guard stepped out on a routine cell check. Suddenly, he was cracked over the head with an iron...
...business, generally, did not charge all that the traffic would bear-e.g., a new Chevrolet which a dealer sold for $1,500 was actually worth $2,300 on a "used" car lot a block away. But many an industry did not charge as little as its prospect of profits would have allowed. Nor did some industries, notably textiles and shoes, reduce prices when sales slipped. Instead, they preferred to close some plants or curtail production to keep prices...