Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dandelions and other weeds can be cleaned out in about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...
Testament of Beauty. It looked as if the eleventh duke would have to put Chatsworth on the block, and see its treasures scattered round the world. But the young Devonshire, whose family motto is Cavendo tutus (Secure by Caution), vowed: "I will fight to the bitter end." At this point he was aided by the legal handiwork of a doctrinaire Socialist. Back in 1946 Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, operating on the Socialist theory that "the best that still remains should surely become the heritage not of a few private owners but of all our people," set aside...
...Althea Gibson was only one year old in 1928 when her parents decided that Manhattan's swarming West 143rd Street offered more opportunity than their cotton-poor farm in Silver, S.C. (in New York, her father went to work in a garage). The Gibsons' block between Lenox and Seventh Avenues was a play street, and in summer the white lines for paddle tennis and shuffleboard slid out over the baking asphalt to hold in the aimless kids. An instructor-supervisor sent up by the Police Athletic League divided his time as the situation demanded -part coach and part...
...Feen-A-Mint, Aspergum) to fight current attempts by Revlon Inc. to win Schering control. If stockholders approve, Schering will swap about 11% of its shares for White, thus set up White group as a counterbalance to Revlon, which now owns 9% of Schering stock, probably the biggest single block outstanding...
Over & Out. In Milwaukee, after police watched George Stein, 79, drive down the wrong side of the street, make an illegal left turn and pass eight stop signs on a five-block trip, he was fined $50 and lost his license despite his plea that he had trouble walking, hearing and seeing and only drove once a month-to visit his doctor...