Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test was significant. Mobilized against the bill was a large block of Tories led by a titled hotel expert, Sir Douglas Hacking, who is also a potent behind-scenes figure in the Conservative Party. Beveridge Plan supporters felt that the Tories were simply voicing their traditional conservatism. Said Sir Stafford Cripps's leftist Tribune: "The British people will have only themselves to blame if they ignore the fact that the old ruling class are as reactionary as ever...
Comedy has always been an added attraction of the Trotters. Tatum deliberately capers around the court in a rocking chimpanzee gait, his long arms swinging, his teeth bared. Going for the ball, he often flaps his arms gooselike; when he jumps, can reach eleven feet into the air to block opponents' shots. Sometimes he hides the ball under his shirt, perches it on top of a bewildered opponent's head...
...economic data. For instance, in the boom year of 1929 the cost of living was 27% above the depression year of 1932. Multiplying the national income in 1932 (which roughly represents net production) by this percentage, one arrives at the mystic figure of $11 billions, represented by the middle block above. This is the amount of money which the American public apparently "saved" through falling prices and the worst depression in history. Conversely, between 1932 and 1942 the cost of living in the U.S. rose by 19%. Applying this to the national income in 1942, one arrives at the third...
...founded in 1848 and one of the world's largest zinc miners. The answer will come when the estate of its former board chairman, the late Edgar Palmer, unveils detailed corporation figures, thus greases the ways to sell some 400,000 shares of New Jersey Zinc common. This block represents working control of the company (20%) and must be sold to pay inheritance taxes...
...Price Administration, whose big educational job should be to persuade the U.S. public that it is going to have to sacrifice for the war effort, last week released an ingenious chart to the U.S. press which seemed to prove just the opposite. Part of the chart is the block reproduced at the left of the above diagram inscribed with the mystic number: $6 billions. According to OPA this is the amount which U.S. citizens have been "saved" through the fact that prices did not rise as rapidly as they did during the last...