Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday, Nixon managed to find time for a luncheon trip to Fisherman's Wharf with newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...
...tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing) weighing 257 tons, 6 ft. thick, standing 35 ft. high...
...dedicated men-Stalin was still a poisonous penumbra on the horizon of history-were theoretically bent on directing Russia as an ally of the U.S. and the Anglo-French alliance against imperial Germany and Austria. The problem of the U.S. was to keep Russia in the war, and so block the movement of Germany's Eastern divisions to the Western Front. The problem of the Bolshevik leaders was simply to get out of the war-as they had promised their supporters-and still conquer and keep power...
...with Truman (who has permitted Harriman's aides to use his name in their approaches to delegates). On Harriman's heels was Truman's Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, a Stevenson leader, arriving for a weekend in Independence; he felt confident that Truman would not try to block Adlai. Two days later Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter who-at 36-has hopes for the vice-presidential nomination, checked into Kansas City. Truman walked over to Clement's Muehlebach Hotel suite, explaining: "I wanted to take an hour or so so we can talk...
...already responding to the supertanker success formula: the bigger and faster the ship, the fatter the profit. Aided by the biggest shipping subsidies in peacetime history, long-hungry U.S. shipyards are taking on more and more supership orders, and expect volume to increase. The Maritime Administration estimates that "block obsolescence" of war-built...