Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...
...heard a Yankee voice drawl, "Climb down, brother, it's old-home week." Cabled TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham : "At a road junction I saw a dozen dead Germans sprawled grotesquely in the dust beside wrecked vehicles and one dead mule. They had run into an American road block while trying to escape north ward." By the 21st day of the offensive, 120,000 of the estimated 250,000 Germans in Italy were prisoners. The chance of escape for the rest grew slimmer by the hour...
...stone houses of Wreissensee and Pankow. Here had lived the hundreds of thousands of Berliners who had known the kicks and cuffs of the little Nazi bosses. These were Berlin's onetime centers of Socialism and Communism. Now there were SS troopers and Nazi youth fighting from flaming block to block, from the warehouses and factories turned into fortresses...
...directors of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. ("Katy") feared that there would be wigs on the green at the annual stockholders' meeting in St. Louis last week. Edward N. Claughton, holder of the largest single block of Katy stock (11%), had loudly voiced his dissatisfaction with the way the Katy president, natty, gregarious Matthew S. Sloan, was treating his stockholders...
...saved to print 100,000 extra copies. Many other newspapers did the same. The San Francisco Chronicle went farther, dropping all chatty columns, women's features, etc. PM omitted its regular Sunday picture of a pin-up girl. Everywhere newspapers broke out their 260-and 300-point wood-block headlines (known irreverently to printers as the "Second Coming" type). And even the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune used a journalistic symbol for mourning, familiar in Lincoln's day: "turning the rules" so that column lines would print a heavy black. The Tribune also had a chaste editorial tribute...