Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steep Caraballo Mountains of northern Luzon, a battalion of the 127th Infantry Regiment last week came upon a vast road block-a chasm blasted by retreating Japs...
Photographers rushed up to get the picture (see cut). Then, while thousands watched from adjacent buildings and from below, two Richmond steeplejacks went up with a block & tackle, fastened a rope to the dangling man. They lowered Steeplejack Lawson to the roof. The halyard remained twisted. It could stay that way, for all Steeplejack Lawson cared...
Flower Pots in the Ruins. On the east side, where the workers live and the Russians rule, the damage is greater than in the west. This part of Berlin was fought through, and some of its streets are still impassable. For block after block the houses look gutted, but so stubbornly do buildings resist destruction that in many of these houses two or three rooms are still occupied, and there are even flower pots in some of the windows...
...planes and munitions for two years) for his famed auto-body and streamlined train-building company. Budd's lease had set a reconversion mark for U.S. industry (particularly Competitor Pullman); no other company had taken over a plant so big from the war-industry plants now on the block, and reconverted...
...quiet exchange of stock (three shares of Macy common for four of O'C.M.'s class B), Macy's acquired a reasonably new (1929), eight-story-and-basement building at Stockton and O'Farrell streets, just a block off San Francisco's well-beaten shopping triangle, plus valuable adjoining frontage on nearby Union Square. It also acquired a reputation for stodgy merchandising...