Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valley's prime selling points are the warm sun and the deep valley. Male skiers in U. P.'s promotion literature are usually pictured stripped to the waist and mopping their brows. Female skiers are generally reclining in ice block "Sunroom Igloos" getting a good "ice tan." An open-air, warm-water swimming pool for midwinter bathing is to be another Ketchum specialty. Other features: bobsledding, sleighriding, dog racing, skating rinks, "hot potato" rest huts...
...through the hole just vacated by the guard. The end run is the real basis of the Notre Dame system, with the play going either inside or outside the end. The success of this play is the result of getting to the point of attack with the fullest possible blocking strength with the least possible delay. On this particular play, the left end will charge down the field to try to block the safety man and, if the rest of his mates perform their blocking duties correctly, the Fighting Irish will have scored on another perfect play...
Largest single block of trusteed Ayer stock-234,000 shares -was held by President Fry. Current Ayer fight is primarily over the intra-corporate disposition of those shares following their owner's death...
...been with Ayer for 30 years, is the only remaining partner of the original trust agreement. On the ground that he owns 39 times as many trusteed shares as Messrs. Batten & Jordan combined, he claims the right under the terms of the trust to buy the key stock block from the Fry estate...
According to President Batten & friends this right belongs to N. W. Ayer, the corporation, as owner of 117,000 trusteed shares. Last month they held a meeting for the 201 Ayer stockholders, put through a plan whereby the company allocated big blocks of the Fry stock to President Batten and Director Jordan on a deferred payment plan, undertook to buy the rest of the Fry stock for the company's treasury. The idea behind this plan was to equalize the holdings of four directors, including Adman Thornley. All the trusteed stock was voted in a block in favor...