Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly characters. He immediately recognized these as Aramaic, quickly and easily translated them into English...
...deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another 1830 Wasp on a test block made spectators' ears throb, shook their bellies...
Last week Chicago's First National provided a potent illustration of the current reversal in this movement of RFC capital. First National announced that it would shortly buy back $15,000,000 in preferred stock now held by RFC, completing the retirement of the original block of $25,000,000 sold the Government in 1934. The bank retired the first $10,000,000 last December. To present shareholders First National will offer $10,000,000 in new stock, one new share at $200 for each five shares held, making up the difference with $5,000,000 from reserves...
...yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead Co., in which his family had a fat block of stock, had exhausted the best of its ores, Crane at 40 reluctantly abandoned the sea, plunged into a study of mining methods in the U. S. and South America, invented an underground shovel, became head of the company, worked low-grade lead ores at a profit, using one-third...
Though telephones held out, power failure soon drove all three Pittsburgh papers out of town. To the Washington, Pa. Observer & Reporter scurried the Scripps-Howard Press, ran off 125,000 copies of an eight-page flood extra. Paul Block's Post-Gazette borrowed the office of the Newcastle News, got out enough papers for 70,000 of its 204,139 readers, then slogged on to the larger plant of the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator. The Sun-Telegraph hurried a crew 30 miles to publish on the presses of the Greensburg Tribune & Review...