Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south, along the Velkhov River, where Germans had lost more than 2,000 men in a savage attack in one sector Monday, Russian artillery blasted the German lines and smashed 17 pill boxes and block houses, the midnight communique said as recorded here from Moscow radio...
...treacherous sink of Chott el-Fedjedj hemmed Rommel's inland flank. Just north of the chott were the U.S. troops of Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., threatening to drive down out of the hills, cut across to the seacoast and block the German retreat. At Bou Hamran they were only 55 miles from the coast; in their position east of Maknassy, only...
Facing Park Avenue, one block south of Grand Central Station, stands a venerable symbol of the Mauve Decade in Manhattan-the eight-story, red-brick Murray Hill Hotel, festooned with magnificent circular fire escapes, studded with four towers whence New Yorkers once could view their city. Like an aging dowager, the Murray Hill resisted change through the years. New Yorkers called it "The Old Lady," occasionally walked through its palm-dotted lobby or ate in its red-walled dining room, with splashing fountain and singing canaries, to evoke the feeling of a bygone era. Among surrounding skyscrapers, the Murray Hill...
...life when, as a boy, he watched his father's daily ritual in preparing punch from Medford Rum.* He started out at the Murray Hill as assistant night clerk, soon rose to manager. He saved his money, increased it by speculation. When the hotel went on the auction block, he held a mortgage on all the furnishings, became the natural and successful bidder. Ben Bates had one firm resolution: the Murray Hill must not change. He would not permit sandblasting of its dirtied outer walls: every brick was washed by hand. He spent half a million for renovations...
...world's biggest hotel put on the world's biggest auction sale last week in Chicago. Everything movable (and some choice stationary items) in the 3,000-room Stevens Hotel went on the block. The Stevens, now the home of some 9,000 U.S. Army Air Forces students, cost its builders $28,000,000 in 1927, was sold to the Army for only $6,000,000 last December. Proceeds of the auction of its furnishings, which were last valued at $2,200,000, will apply against the Army's purchase price...