Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BABIES' LIVES. . . . PRIVATE SHOWING OF "THE FIGHT FOR LIFE" BEFORE MEMBERS OF THE DAYTON OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY AND SO OTHER DAYTON PHYSICIANS AND THEIR WIVES PROVOKED ONLY ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE. DAYTON OBSTETRICIANS HAVE ASKED FOR PRINT OF PICTURE FOR TEACHING OF INTERNS, RESIDENT PHYSICIANS AND NURSES. DESPITE HOLLYWOOD RESISTANCE VIA BLOCK BOOKING STRANGLEHOLD AND DESPITE ANTAGONISM OF A FEW DOCTORS THE LORENTZ-DE KRUIF PICTURE WILL INEVITABLY ACCOMPLISH THE TWO PURPOSES FOR WHICH IT WAS MADE. IT WILL SAVE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND BABIES AND IT WILL PROVIDE THE INTELLIGENT ADULT WITH ONE HOUR AND EIGHT MINUTES OF A THRILLING EMOTIONAL...
...correspondent for the Daily News visited the tomb early this morning. The stone, a tremendously heavy circular block of granite which had been sealed against marauders with the Roman seal, was rolled away...
Nine years ago in Bradford, Pa., an engineer named C. G. ("Center of Gravity") Taylor gave up the corporate ghost trying to manufacture and sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...
Finland's government must have known the difficulties -- and the ultimate hopelessness -- of foreign intervention. Finland was not "forsaken," as her Foreign Minister now intones. Her geographical position was a natural stumbling-block to would-be helpers. She had no reason to assume last November that aid would come earlier. She must have realized that the Finnish people would have to carry the fight alone for many months. Yet Finland rejected all proposals "injurious to her national integrity," and chose to fight. She brought destruction upon herself for the sake of an ideal, in a war which she could...
...advance while their main force fell back in good order. A ruined town makes the best of all fortifications, and as the Russians entered the outskirts of Viipuri, Finnish machine guns spat tellingly from the gaping windows of the all-but-demolished houses. The invaders had to occupy Viipuri block by burning block...