Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Block Itch. In Hamilton, Ohio, police arrested John Flyman for going from door to door asking people to scratch his back...
...West Berlin's big Kaufhaus des Westens, scare buying tapered off after a few days ; citizens jammed the Kurfürstendamm's fancy restaurants, queued in block-long lines for movies. West Berlin's new Hilton Hotel opened with a shimmer of celebrities flown in from Manhattan. Siemens announced a new $8.6 million program for expanding its West Berlin electrical-equipment operation, promising 2,000 new jobs. Bonn decided to boost its $260 million annual subsidy to the West Berlin government by more than a third...
Arrival by Fluke. Composer Engel started his first opera, Alfred, when he was ten ("I spent a great deal of time block-lettering the title at the top of the score"), eventually won a graduate scholarship to Juilliard, studied composition with craggy Modernist Roger Sessions. He arrived on Broadway "purely by fluke" when he persuaded Melvyn Douglas to let him write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans...
...Last week Kirby, Block & Co., one of the biggest resident buying offices in Manhattan, polled 649 clothing retailers around the country, found that 78% expect a sales pickup in the first quarter, while not one foresees a decrease...
REVLON-SCHICK MERGER is close. Schick Boss Kenneth C. Gifford quit; he and members of Schick family sold controlling block of about 242,000 shares (market value: almost $4,000,000) to Revlon. Onto...