Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When markets were finally made, prices were down anywhere from 2 to 6 points. General Motors, which had closed at 65¾ the day before election, opened Wednesday at 61. U.S. Steel opened down 4 on a block of 15,000 shares. In the avalanche of selling (3,230,000 shares for the day), the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 7.3 points, the sharpest break since the crash of the bull market...
...Wood Shed. Fish had been sold at the market, originally a one-block stretch at the foot of Fulton Street just north of Wall Street, since 1821. But it was not till 1848 that the city built a wooden shed to house the fishmongers...
...Harvardians' performances this year indicate that they are a chip off the old block as regards reliability and professional worksmanship--welcome news to dance committeemen, plagued with the now-you-see-me-now-you-don't tactics of the local standbys. If all goes well, they should soon be outstripping the Yale Collegians...
Brief Encounter. In Salem, Mass., Robert C. Carter sued for divorce, complained bitterly that his wife had deserted him a block from the church, two minutes after the wedding...
...really use the Houses, this has all been fine. But so far the one great block to the success of the Plan has been that the Houses have not been able to bring together enough of their residents. A large number of men have not cared to enter Houses activities, either because they belong to a social club which draws their allegiance, or because they simply aren't interested. The second group is the largest, and the Houses have not attracted these men because of a variety of little and big reasons...