Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasing prices of all accommodations $5 each is used to counteract losses in room rentals when, for example, 100 rooms are changed from the $300 to the $260 class. The income drop is $40 per accommodation (the price actually falls from $305 to $265), or $4000 for the block of 100. The additions and subtractions in each case are indicated in the "change" column. Summation of the gains and losses incurred coincident with the change in the number of accommodations at each price, indicates a loss of income of $8800. Hence the increased price level makes possible the changes indicated...
...generations before sunburned bankers and brokers appeared upon the high seas off the New Jersey coast. Block Island and Montauk Point armed with expensive rods & reels, Atlantic market fishermen had been familiar with a hard-headed sea monster with a silver belly, blue-bronze back and corrugated spine. They called him "horse mackerel and cursed him when, bulking 200 to 800 lb. with the power and speed of a steam engine, he barged into their pound nets and tore them up. Rod & reel fishermen taught the commercial men to call the monster by his right name, tuna. "With their sporting...
...half he shook himself so violently that the hook came out of his mouth-but caught again in his side, making him even harder to handle. When he was exhausted he sounded. "Pumping" him up stone dead from the bottom was excruciating labor. A commercial boat's block & tackle was required to hoist the prize finally inboard...
...come under the bold eye of Dr. William Francis Rienhoff Jr., protégé and son-in-law of Johns Hopkins' eminent Urological Surgeon Hugh Hampton Young. Surgeon Rienhoff found that Doris Yost had a cancer in the passage to her left lung, which would soon block off her windpipe and strangle her. Cutting out the entire lung offered her only chance for life...
...Manhattan's National City Bank. Taking two of the three seats vacated by Charles Edwin Mitchell, Hugh Benton Baker and Percy Avery Rockefeller, Messrs. Giannini & Neylan will speak for National City's largest stockholder, Transamerica Corp., of which Mr. Giannini is the rambunctious chairman. Transamerica acquired its block of nearly 600,000 shares when it sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National City in 1931. No traditionalist, Banker Giannini, whose Bank of America, N. T. & S. A. (San Francisco) has 411 branches up & down California, promptly loosed a blast in favor of Federal guarantee...