Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago stickup gangs were equipping their getaway cars with rockets which enabled them to accelerate to 90 miles an hour in a city block...
Gratitude & Devotion. Most colorful visitors at the opening last week were the Russian and Eastern Orthodox representatives-bearded patriarchs like Archimandrite Vitaly of Russia, Archbishop Panteleimon of Greece and Metropolitan Germanos, Greek Orthodox exarch for Western Europe. Largest national block is the 78 bishops from the U.S. led by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. Many of the Americans brought wives & children along (their billeting, in universities and private homes, has been the special concern of Mrs. William Temple, widow of the late Archbishop of Canterbury). While the bishops deliberate in Lambeth Palace, their wives will have a conclave at High...
Last week Anna announced that she had sold the paper, as her "last act" fired 60 employees by registered letter.* At week's end the sale was called off; the minority stockholder, for unexplained reasons, had vetoed the deal. But the paper was still on the block...
...Block booking is illegal...
...York Stock Exchange last week a 10,000-share block of Dome Mines Ltd. (gold) was sold at 16¼ a share. The seller: Wall Street's Clifford Michel, Dome Mines president. Next day, when Dome cut its quarterly dividend (from 25? Canadian to 17½?), the value of the 10,000 shares dropped $11,250. Then, before anybody could cry "inside unloading," Clifford Michel stepped up, canceled the sale, and gave his reasons...