Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting Trim. In Honolulu, lightweight Boxer Richie Shinn weighed in, found himself over the 133-lb. limit, removed his upper plate, ran around the block, came...
When night fell rifles passed through the hands of muttering veterans rallying in front of G.I. election headquarters. A block away a movie marquee blazed its attraction: Gunning for Vengeance. Shadowy figures soon lurked along the ivy-covered ridge overlooking the two-story brick jail. A pale yellow light gleamed through the jail's tall front windows; the deputies were inside. Outside, the street was solidly lined with deputies' cars...
...impressive performances like these, George Zook gets a salary of $18,000 a year-more than a Cabinet member's. The offices of the million-dollar American Council, a block away from the White House, reflect Zook's own prosperous but conservative air. A.C.E.'s main output: solid studies about everything in education from A to Zook...
...American Veterans Committee, whose office is next to the nursery in Phillips Brooks House, happily removed the large sign outside their door. It seems that two prospective members, ex-Navy fliers, had come up to the second floor to join but had become so interested in the block construction of an aircraft carrier by a boy of four that they had forgotten all about joining the A.V.C...
...kept aloof from her customers, her employes and the press. She lived for the store, building it from the small, five-floor institution she inherited in 1905 into today's 17-story, half-block-long edifice. In the process, she parlayed the $3,500,000 fortune left her by her first husband into...