Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conqueror Napoleon introduced the French guillotine into Prussia. Last week Captain Göring banished it by decree. He substituted the medieval chopping block and headsman's axe. The headsman, he prescribed, must always wear impeccable evening dress...
...years ago Patrick H. Joyce, burly, forthright president of Chicago Great Western, bought for his road a 20% inter est in Kansas City Southern. He bought it cheap from the hard-pressed Brothers Van Sweringen. The block of 104,500 shares, said President Joyce at the time, would give Great Western "part of the trackage we need for a direct route from the Northwest to the Gulf of Mexico." As to Kansas City Southern itself he added: "We will make a railroad out of it if we can get co-operation." Last week cash looked better than a railroad...
...Lansdale where the strike began in late June three hosiery plants shut down. Last week one, the Dexdale, tried to reopen. Strikers and their friends gathered outside to block "scabs." Fifty local police turned out to drive off picketers, guard the plant from...
...Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead of by harpoon is comparatively new. The sport of catching them off Montauk Point, L. I., and nearby Block Island is even newer, although broadbills are found the world over...
Errett Lobban Cord, automobile & aviation tycoon, was watching an airplane motor on a test block in a Los Angeles shop. The propeller snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...