Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed. It was a terraced pyramid of sleek red & black granite. From a single 50-ton block over the bronze doors flared in red porphyry the word LENIN...
...many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street or backing into a parking space. Laboratory tests would compel the candidate to demonstrate ability to cope with all sorts of situations, would eliminate as factors the strictness or leniency...
...banking group headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. which loaned the Van Sweringens $48,000,000 and took Allegheny stock as collateral. This syndicate has the power to initiate reorganization plans and it presumably approved last week's proposal. But it also has the power to block such plans because it enjoys the status of an MOP creditor, having loaned that company...
...automobile business and the company estimates a profit of from $5 to $7 on each automobile transaction. It has official contracts with Chrysler and Packard. Last December Walter P. Chrysler arranged to add a slice of Commercial Credit's profits to his own by acquiring a substantial block of stock in that company...
...head of Inland are the brothers Block, Philip Dee, president, and Leopold E., chairman, sons of a Cincinnati ironmonger. Visitors seldom find them both at their own desks because each is continually popping into the other's office to argue, suggest, consult. Philip Block is the operating head. As such he supervised the building of Inland's new $20,000,000 finished steel mill at Indiana Harbor, Ind. which, though it looked like a bad investment in 1931 and 1932, is currently responsible for most of Inland's profits. Leopold Block is the financial head and used...