Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Block called it his "biggest single charity...
From the huge Olympic Coliseum, with its three flagpoles, 105,000 seats and Olympic torch, the scene of the Xth Olympiad shifted last week to the 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, where 10,000 spectators with Japanese parasols sat in a small concrete stadium looking down at a narrow block of pale green water...
Pleased Treasury officials rubbed their hands over long tables of figures last week, then called in the Press for an announcement. The first, most important step was over in the Government's spectacular campaign to convert Britain's 5% War Loan Bonds (largest single block of the national debt) to new 3½% bonds Out of a total of ?2,086,000,000 outstanding, ?1,500,000,000, or something over 70%, has been voluntarily converted. Over 75% of the individual bondholders, 2,036,700 out of 2,600,000, have come forward with applications. Only...
...kitchen garden, it was discovered that great crops would grow in Colorado soil. A degree of permanence began to invade Denver. Some Denverites began to sleep nights. Others carried Denver's early rough-&-toughness to a plush & gilt extreme in the night life of Larimer and Curtis Streets. A block north was Market Street, one of the U. S.'s worst red light districts. Organized gambling and prostitution were open and reputable until...
...take without any investment$246,692 in profits from a joint stock-trading account with Publisher Paul Block, but Mr. Block is a rich man who needs no favors from the Mayor...