Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Landmark. As Oxnard grew (1945 pop.: 18,979), Lucy's lone bawdyhouse expanded into a half-block of frame buildings, each well furnished, neatly painted and with window boxes full of geraniums. In Ventura County she became as well known as Oxnard's huge American Crystal Sugar Co. refinery. Lucy was the more spectacular sight. She wore bright, low-cut silk dresses from which her slatlike collarbones protruded, and she affected picture hats and high-heeled shoes. Her wigs were her pride -she had a long, black, wavy one, a short, straight, bobbed one, and for special occasions...
...Toronto, two obscure companies* sued to block a Government investigation into the affairs of the famed Eldorado uranium mine, Canada's great source of the raw material of atomic energy. The suit dragged out a closely guarded Government secret; Canadians had not known that Eldorado was under investigation- or why. Now they heard a story that might resound for months...
...battling to a 6 to 6 tie. The Puritans tallied when George Minot snared a Kirkland pass in the second period and went over. But Kirkland came back to dominate the second half and drive to the two foot line only to be stopped. They then broke through to block Winthrop's punt and tie the score...
...carefully considered bids got him nearly everything he needed: fast linemen to brush-block and scat downfield, blazing fast halfbacks, a blocking fullback and, above all, a sleight-of-hand quarterback. Greasy got a few name players and a lot of unknowns who had what he wanted...
First to go on the block will be the 300-unit clapboard project at Wichita, Kans.. As fast as other units become surplus, they too will be put up for sale, along with 35,000 trailers. When these units were built, Congress provided that they be torn down within two years after the war emergency was over, lest they become slums...