Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budget method: a domestic Budget which will be balanced if possible; a separate Defense Budget, so that the citizenry may see what the U. S. spends on the terrible necessity of arms. Concurrently Mr. Morgenthau indicated financing operations would come on Dec. 15, when the Treasury might sell a block of the $4,000,000,000 worth of special national-defense notes authorized by Congress. One possibility considered was the sale of defense certificates directly to the public, after the manner of Liberty bonds...
...Diesel bee was buzzing in Germany, France, Belgium, England. Patent deals in Germany and Great Britain netted Rudolf Diesel royalties of 70,000 marks a year. In addition, a German company paid him a lump sum of 1,250,000 marks plus a block of stock. Diesel moved his family into a lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin...
...though the individual recruits were not surprises, the whole procedure-the sudden formation of a block of ice in southeastern Europe, where before there had just been chilly water-was not pleasant for Britain and her friends to contemplate. The New Order was actually becoming a reality, the Drang nach Osten was dranging. At week's end Bulgaria was maneuvering for its life, Yugoslavia was encircled for all practical purposes, Russia was a not too encouraging enigma, and only Greece and Turkey seemed to have sufficient gumption to resist...
...Detroit"-a city of 200,000 on the southern edge of the Midlands-became one solid, seething mass of fire. Not just the motor and airplane factories on the outskirts, but the entire heart of the city, square miles of workmen's homes in long neat rows; block upon block of shops and banks and pubs and offices; lovely old St. Michael's cathedral-all fell under the most concentrated rain of destruction yet loosed from the skies by mankind. What the Nazis had done to tiny Guernica in the Spanish war, to Warsaw by degrees...
...force involved?" To find out, he devised a new experiment. To perform it, he takes a little piece of the mold, works it into a sort of dumbbell shape-two blobs connected by a thin strand. He puts this into an air chamber divided into two compartments by a block of agar (marked C in the diagram). The two blobs, a and b, are in separate chambers but are connected by the strand which runs through a small hole in the agar. Protoplasmic streaming from a to b and vice versa can take place through the strand...