Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means abandoned all hope of international accord. In the U.N., U.S. Atomic Representative Frederick Osborn would continue to press the U.S. plan for international atomic control. But as long as Russia continued to block that plan, it was David Lilienthal's job to build the most destructive atomic weapon known to mankind...
...living better, housing shortage and all, than in any other era. The national hunger for new automobiles was insatiable; in every city in the land people were paying secondhand dealers from $300 to $800 over list prices for cars which had been made "secondhand" by being driven around the block. Housewives kept on buying expensive cuts of meat. Baseball was having its biggest season...
Home Life. She lives in a typical Beverly Hills house just across the street from Lady Mendl and around the block from Mike Romanoff. It is complete with swimming pool, five phones, a dachshund nostalgically named Wolfie, and several hundred hats. There, Hedda promotes cozy Sunday morning breakfasts with leading ladies of the screen. Instead of Hedda's calling on them for an interview, it is customary for them to call on her (though she is not quite as insistent on this point as Louella...
Democratic leader Rayburn chilled talk of a House investigation. Belligerently, the Texan told the chamber that if any such effort developed he would try to block and delay all other legislation...
Albania and eight other nations whose entry into the United Nations is sponsored by the Soviet Union ran into a four power road block at Lake Success yesterday, with the outlook growing doubtful that any of them would be accepted. Russia, however, won a diplomatic victory in UNESCO, as she successfully defended Hungary's application for UNESCO membership against a Cuban motion that would have put the Russian satellite in the same excluded category as Spain...