Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished by the Free Peoples Which it Tried to Enslave. For Car 2419D an American built a concrete hall. And at one end of the clearing, commanding its whole expanse, was erected...
Since June 22, German workmen have been busy in the clearing. Car 2419D was removed to Berlin. The Alsace-Lorraine monument, the concrete hall, the big granite block and a smaller one marking the spot where the German plenipotentiaries alighted-all were blasted to bits with dynamite while German newsreels ground...
Eton College (prep school), on whose playing fields the Battle of Waterloo was said (by the Duke of Wellington) to have been won, was bombed last month. When Etonians explored the ruins, they made a tingling discovery: the famed old "birching block," over which headmasters had birched (i.e., flogged) boys' bottoms for generations, was missing. Although many an Etonian was disposed to let well enough alone, antiquarians searched diligently, eventually found the birching block's remains in a bomb crater. Last week they reverently picked up the pieces, installed them in the Eton Museum...
While the fleet moved off to help the R. A. F, block the Italian line of retreat to Tobruch, the Australians started pushing again, this time from the north. That afternoon 15,000 of the Italians were in British hands, the rest "confined to a restricted area." The Rome radio warned the Italian people that Bardia was about to fall. The Italians no longer stood by their positions. Three thousand were taken out of one cave. Neither side's casualties were heavy...
...back interest on each new $1,000 bond). Mr. Steere's stockholders of course got nothing, but since C. & O. owned other C. & E. I. securities, it will wind up with 12% of the new voting stock (16% if its bonds are converted)-the largest single voting block. For continuity's sake the reorganizers also left Charles Thomas O'Neal, the Van Sweringens' operating head of the old C. & E. I., as president...