Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal appropriations for the instruction next year have bogged down in Congressional committees. A strong block in the War Department, now clamoring that the C. A. A. can not give students the proper kind of preparation for later work in the Air Corps, may persuade Congress to incorporate the entire program in the Army...
...over later. . . . "And so that is why ... I have become more than ever clear that the time calls for courage and more courage-calls for action and more action." After a dutiful reference to Andrew Jackson, the President repeated the U. S. determination to "help those who block the dictators in their march toward domination of the world," paid high compliment to Republican Wendell Willkie for "rising above partisanship" (his first public mention of the defeated GOPresidential candidate), and denounced the agents and dupes of Naziism who "have represented themselves as pacifists when actually they are serving the most brutal...
...turn out bottoms to re place them. All the Commission is concerned with is to turn out ships, ships and more ships, and turn them out fast. The U. S. Navy is in the midst of a separate, all-out $4,000,000,000 building program. Neither program must block the other. The Navy needs merchantmen as auxiliaries, and it must get them when it needs them. The Merchant Marine needs ships for the deserted trade routes. They must be supplied. The British need ships to live. They must be supplied. Under the Lend-Lease Act, British ships...
...life, Gutzon Borglum was fascinated by bigness. His statue of Abraham Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington was carved from the largest block of marble he could find. His Wars of America, in Newark, N. J., was at one time the largest bronze group in the U. S. Mount Rushmore was a big enough monolith to satisfy even Borglum. Said he: "There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves, something that relates us to God and to what is greatest in our evolving universe...
...business, bore out recent rumors that trust busters are interested in the setup by which NBC and CBS split most of the U. S. concert trade. Each has a subsidiary (NBC Artists Service, Columbia Concerts Corp.) which, through an offspring (Civic Concerts, Community Concerts), supplies U. S. concertgoers with block-booked talent or nothing...