Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great land and human masses, all the vast concentrations of productive power which oppose the Axis. But the Germans and the Japanese can try to isolate and choke the world's greatest land mass, Eurasia, where the greatest masses of fighting people, the Chinese and the Russians, block their paths to dominion (see col. 1). They were doing a fair job of choking last week. They were reaching for, and blocking, the land and sea roads by which the war materiel of the Americas reaches the warriors of Eurasia...
...being produced in a tiny theatre holding at most a hundred people, by a tiny company of hardworking semi-pros, might arouse at most a little sympathetic interest--not enough, however, for a trip into town to look for that theatre at 36 Joy Street (off Beacon Street a block west of the State House.) Only, therefore, the probable truth that "The Old Ladies" is the most gripping play that has appeared on a Boston stage this season can be reasonably considered just cause for an excursion...
...Hong Kong's 1,500 American residents boldly tried to stem the Japanese onrush. His best story by far was that of Dr. S. C. Moulthan, who loaded a motorcycle sidecar with guncotton, scooted off to the water front, there blew up two large ships to block Hong Kong harbor and scuttled 30 to 40 smaller craft...
...extending east from Moulmein. The defenders' withdrawal had been orderly. Now they hoped to slice up the Jap in terrain that was more to their liking. Meanwhile, 150 miles south on Burma's slender panhandle, the Jap had grabbed Tavoy. In that position he held a secondary block against any British push to the south, which at the moment was unlikely...
...late Charles M. Schwab's 27-room mansion in Bethlehem, Pa. went on the auction block, drew one bid: $5,000. Administrators of the estate declined, decided to try again later...