Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recess time. Congress had not yet faced the question of conscription. But the question was very definitely up. A bill, introduced in the Senate by Nebraska's Burke, looked like a whopping big block of raw material for Congress to work on. Its provisions: 1) to register some 40,000,000 males in the U. S. from 18 to 65; 2) those between 21 and 45, selected as needed, to be given eight months' training and kept as a reservoir from which to fill the ranks of a gigantic Army; 3) saved for home defense would be youths...
...were they stopped when professional politicos pointed out the obstacles: that Wendell Willkie was a businessman and, even more sinister, a utilities executive; that he had been a registered Democrat and had voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; that his office was only a block from Wall Street; that he was unknown to most U. S. voters; that his stand against isolation had made him political poison in the Middle West and his support of the reciprocal trade treaties had ruined him forever in the Western States. In addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been...
...disappeared immediately, and we soon realized that he was a fifth-column agent . . . . We have observed that the Nazi fifth column is efficiently organized to an unbelievable extent, with the idea of creating panic among civilians, rousing them to evacuate towns in the area where the Nazis want to block the Allied troop movements and the movements of supplies, then strafing the whole lot along the blocked road from their planes, and producing further and more complete blockage of the road by the mass of wreckage and bodies...
Although doctors have tried the new technique only on dogs, they hope to use it soon on human beings. Not only would it be invaluable for accidents, said Dr. Carlson last week, but it would also enable doctors to cut open blood vessels and remove emboli-clots which block circulation, may cause death...
Depression took John Raklios back to shirtsleeves. Bankruptcy cut his chain to 13 restaurants, and more bad business put them on the block to be bought by Thompson's. Last year John Raklios, 58 and ailing, peddled bread at $25-30 a week for White Baking Co. Chicago newspapers reviewed his rise and fall last August when he was jailed for two days for a $2,000 debt under Illinois' antique debtors...