Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London itself, however, clearly showed the scars of incessant bombing, Fulton stated, with scarcely a city block in the entire metropolitan area untouched. Four types of bombs, 50-250, and 500-kilo bombs, and a heavy land-mine which descends by parachute are being used in the attacks on London, he said...
...THOUSAND THANKS FOR KIND TREATMENT [TIME, NOV. 25] AT A TIME WHEN I CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED TO HAVE MY BLOCK KNOCKED OFF, BUT CANNOT HELP FEELING A LITTLE UNHAPPY THAT YOU FELT THE URGE TO USE A PICTURE TAKEN ON THE ONE DAY THAT I'D MISLAID MY HINDS HONEY & ALMOND CREAM...
Suddenly its left wing dropped and the arrow-straight line of its flight path was broken. Inside the cabin a woman screamed. There was a horrible crash as the big silver monoplane broke an electric line. Beyond, only a block from the field, she hit the ground, burst asunder. From houses near by, residents of Cicero Avenue rushed to the wreck, carried out six dead, four who were to die before week's end, six who survived...
Looking for significance in these moves, observers thought they saw one more result of the recent consent decree between Hollywood's Big Five companies and the Department of Justice (TIME, Nov. 11). Since the decree outlaws block booking in groups of more than five pictures, requires producers to show their films to exhibitors before selling, Hollywood now not only must decentralize but has to take a great deal more pains with its productions. No longer, thought some, will it be possible for one man to rule any studio's roost...
...exist who have been born with snowshoe feet or a mountain goat nostalgia for high places. At Harvard these select silver spooners have already formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...