Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harmonious but stern was Getulio Vargas' broadcast to his country : "Any aggression from whatever source will find us the greatest block of varied nationalities ever got together in any defensive alliance." In the same vein Franklin Roosevelt sent a message, read over the radio, to his good southern neighbor...
Young (27), ruddy-faced Frank Block, St. Louis adman, last June began thinking about a national wastepaper drive. The plan called for the use of regular collection channels (i.e., junkmen), and payment by the industry of all expenses...
...Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...
...seconds-a record that stood for 15 years until broken by F. W. Jarvis; in Niles, Mich. A popular cut-rate eye specialist in Niles, he made no appointments, charged $2 for the first visit, $1 thereafter, took his patients from a queue that usually extended half a city block from his drab little office above a drugstore. He once estimated that in 38 years he had treated 1,500,000 cases...
...years: His personality is rough and bearish; he may run rather than walk. He can build a tower of six or seven cubes, insert a square block in a square hole. He also throws and kicks a ball, knows 50 words, puts dolls to bed, talks about his experiences, asks for food and toilet...