Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defensively, block the two main Communist aims, which at present are "consolidation of effective domination of Eurasia, and the infiltration and weakening of all countries which cannot be brought under Communist control." Offensively, the U.S. can help friendly, non-Communist nations by "loans, relief, mutually profitable trading agreements, machines, floods of wanted consumers' goods, easy financial terms. . . . They could all be made to repeat the lesson that it is a materially pleasant and profitable thing to be associated with the United States. . . . Concessions alone would not, however, be enough. . . . The realization that it is good to be a friend...
...planes. In the near future, most air traffic experts agree, something new will be needed to keep them from getting in each other's way. Recently the Air Transport Association of America described an ideal system for instrument designers to shoot at. It amounted to the sort of block system that railroads...
...Only a block from the Hudson River pier where the Normandie burned and sank five years ago, fire broke out one day last week on the John Ericsson, formerly the Swedish liner Kungsholm. For three hours, fire engines and boats fought the flames while clouds of yellowish smoke billowed over the 85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, tied up at the same pier and engaged in loading 2,200 passengers for her scheduled sailing that afternoon. The 20,200-ton John Ericsson, a troopship during the war, is owned by the Maritime Commission and operated by the United States Lines. With...
...spot, and showed it-at bat, by swinging at bad balls; in the outfield (where the Giants are trying him, instead of as a pitcher), by misjudging fly balls. He also showed a tendency to go for a line drive with his head averted, and a disinclination to block a bouncing ball the way all good outfielders do-with his body as well as his glove...
Sick U.S. airlines were queued up a block long at the door of the Civil Aeronautics Board last week, wailing for fast first aid. Mostly, they wanted higher mail rates, higher passenger fares. (A notable exception was Eastern Air Lines, which asked CAB to approve a 10% reduction in its round-trip fares.) Some, in acute distress, had special problems. In fact, there were suddenly so many special problems that many an airman began to wonder: How well had CAB done its big job of supervising the airlines...