Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cincinnati's three newspapers last week had Page One news in which all three figured. Up for sale went a block of bonds convertible into 36.5% of the stock-working control-of the city's only morning and Sunday paper, the prosperous Enquirer (circ. 206,408). Among the bidders: the Scripps-Howard chain, which owns the Cincinnati Post (circ. 164,646), and the city's third paper, the Taft-owned Times-Star (circ. 154,314), which narrowly missed taking over the Enquirer in 1952. The winner: Scripps-Howard, which paid $4,059,000 against a Times-Star...
...special rate will be offered for a block of seats as large as the Council can sell, according to Sloane, thus eliminating danger of deficit...
...ever-punctual, this time solemn father. A crowd had circled the Truman gate to admire her gown of antique Venetian lace, pale beige in color because "white doesn't become me." Margaret paused to smile at them, then ducked into a limousine for the five-minute, six-block journey to Trinity Church. "She looks beautiful, Mr. Truman," called a voice from the crowd. "Thank you, thank you very much," said the farther of the bride. "I think...
...jewel thievery-dutifully roared. Overhead, a seaplane belonging to Sea Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis, controlling croupier of Monte Carlo's famed Casino, bombarded Grace and His Serene Highness with 500 red and white carnations. Aboard Deo_ Juvante the lovers closed for a buss, were thwarted by a fast block thrown by Grace's arm-held poodle Oliver, settled on an awkward, unromantic handshake...
Miss Herlitz replied that the greatest stumbling block to successful negotiation is the Arab nations' refusal to "accept Israel as a fact." She treated Sayegh's statement as evidence that the Arabs continually wish to return to a state of affairs which no longer exists...