Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual demonstration of the many complicated emergency devices was supervised by Captain James Kennedy of the Boston Fire Department. Among the pieces of apparatus he explained were a block for raising El cars to release persons pinned underneath, the gas mask and its proper use, and a combination inhalator-resuscitator to be used in cases where artificial respiration is needed. He claimed that this machine was far superior to manual resuscitation and gave several examples of miraculous recoveries from...
Simultaneously German bombers roared in over the docks, dropped flares, circled to identify the warships' positions. Over the roadstead leading out to sea parachute mines floated down to block the entrance. Aboard the French vessels, officers and crews sprang to their stations. Searchlights stabbed out, anti-aircraft batteries opened up from the ships and ashore. From the flagship of Vice Admiral Jean de Laborde, commander of the fleet, a signal was given...
...like story came from the town of Tonawanda, N.Y., where the U.S. Government has been backing and filling over a 1,200-house project (for workers at Curtiss-Wright and Buffalo Arms) for more than a year. Main stumbling block was that water, sewage and incinerator facilities were scarcely adequate to serve Tonawanda even before it was glutted with war workers, and the town was willing and able to pay only about one-quarter of the $488,000 estimated cost of enlarging them. Town Supervisor Roy R. Brockett beat his brains out on this problem, with "more than 35 persons...
...engraved with a longitudinal cross section of the ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge the fore-&-aft trim of the ship in precisely the same fashion...
Nevertheless, Yerex still has one great stumbling block in his path. Since he is still a British subject (and TACA a Panamanian corporation) TACA must somehow be "Americanized" to suit the letter of the law. To CAB Yerex divulged a plan he had worked out to do just that: he wants to put all his TACA stock (over 85%) into a voting trust, to be engineered by Investment Bankers Schroder Rockefeller & Co. Over half the stock would be owned by Americans and all of the five voting trustees except Yerex himself would be U.S. citizens-among them Schroder Rockefeller Vice...