Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief announced the new autonomy. Two days later Kiev announced appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...
...transportation. Kerrey's plan begins, therefore, with reorganization of Manhattan's streets to restore circulation. Around the central part of the island would run a belt highway. It would carry all through north-&-south traffic, would be fed by widely spaced cross streets at about 15-block intervals. About 90% of the present crosstown streets, and Madison and Lexington Avenues, might be eliminated; all remaining streets and avenues would be one-way. North-&-south avenues (except Broadway) would carry no through traffic, would be broken at intervals to permit division of Manhattan into a series of huge, self...
Freed of traffic lights (except at pedestrian crossings), the ring streets would supposedly allow a smooth flow of traffic. The block plan would place all residents within easy walking distance of schools, shops, etc. Herrey proposes a new type of apartment house, with a terrace and garden for each apartment...
...what happened in Toronto aroused no echo in Ottawa. There Lord Halifax's words broke without warning on the East Block, where Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his experts on External Affairs frame Canadian policies...
...East Block the speech looked like a kite deliberately flown to test the political winds in Canada before the meeting of the Commonwealth's Prime Ministers in London scheduled soon, when Empire policies will finally be threshed out. The provocation for direct reply was great: some of the Prime Minister's supporters talked angrily of an "imperialist ramp" (i.e., "Swindle...