Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building which would house not only Marshall Field but many another manufacturer and wholesaler, would be another State Street in its concentration of buyers & sellers. Getting from the Chicago & North Western Ry. a tract of land along the Chicago River, he built the Merchandise Mart. It is two blocks long and a block deep, cost Marshall Field & Co. some $30,000,000. Completed in Depression, it looked at first like a great Depression error. New York was the buyer's Mecca, Chicago a way-station. But Depression helped as well as hindered. To most buyers Chicago was much nearer...
...Republican convention were held tomorrow," puffed well-fed Publisher Block when the meal was over, "Landon would receive the nomination easily. . . . He's an even bigger man than I had previously thought...
Most spectacular Topeka arrivals, aptly symbolizing the kind of backing every Presidential hopeful needs, were two private cars and a chartered Pullman which rolled into the railroad yards of the Great Economizer's capital last week. From one private car descended New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block. From the Pullman descended New Deal-hating Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who arrived to look for the first time on the homely face of the man he began edging toward the White House three months ago. With "The Chief" was his Columnist Arthur Brisbane. From the other private car descended the editor...
Last week's conclave in Chicago was no exception. Prize article on the block was the Philadelphia Athletics' genial, broad-beamed James Emory (''Jimmy") Foxx, twice voted "most valuable player" in the American League, propeller of 58 home runs in 1932, possessor of a lifetime batting average of .338. Casting covetous eyes at him was Thomas Austin Yawkey, equally genial and broad-beamed owner of the onetime lowly Boston Red Sox. Tycoon Yawkey paid $1,000,000 for the club three years ago, spent $2,000,000 more to raise the tailenders to fourth place...
Andrew Carnegie built a block-long palace on Fifth Avenue, which cost a little over...