Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies kidded earnest women block wardens until the tearful and embarrassed women gave up their jobs...
Units of Rommel's forces that had not retreated beyond Bengasi were caught on the Barca Plateau. This was the area the Axis had hoped to defend to block the advancing British. They apparently stumbled over it in retreat, for this week Rommel's armored units and the Italian infantry appeared to be sprawled from Cyrene toward Tripoli...
...issue of the closed shop arose again last week to vex the President. His labor-management conference, instead of agreeing on a program to end strikes, stumbled over an old block: the closed shop...
...most improbable building in the U.S. to go on the auction block was last week advertised for sale. It was Washington's magnificent $3,500,000 Federal Reserve (Board) Building, and the District of Columbia was claiming it for nonpayment of $315,000 in taxes...
Marriner Eccles' opulent marble and bronze mausoleum was on the block for a curious reason. The Federal Reserve has often proclaimed its independence from the U.S. Government, but in this case it claimed to be an arm of the Government (hence tax-free). By week's end both sides thought the joke had gone far enough, agreed to arbitrate the dispute...