Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albany, Calif., Contractor G. De Gaeta bought two lots, started to put up two houses. When the second house was almost finished, Builder De Gaeta found he had built the houses on someone else's property, a full block from the land he had bought...
...acquiring theatre chains the major producers avoided competing in the same territories and since their output is enough to keep all theatres comfortably full, they can and do exchange pictures and actors freely, meanwhile deny such privileges to independents except upon hard terms. 2) That they insist on block-booking, full-line forcing, high rentals. 3) That as a result, independents are being driven out of business, new competitors are effectively forestalled; independent theatres cannot exercise free choice of films; independent producers find it virtually impossible to market their films; new capital investment is discouraged; theatre patrons in any given...
...most people knew that Howard Hughes had for months been planning a world flight, and some of them knew that what kept him from starting off long ago was Governmental unwillingness to let him fly into curious foreign lands with new and strictly U. S. flying instruments. Another stumbling block was the unwillingness of foreign lands to let anyone fly over with cameras possibly spotting military secrets. But eight hours after he blew into Le Bourget, Howard Hughes was aloft again with a jounce that rattled his landing gear. Soon he was flying discreetly high and fast over Germany, aiming...
...Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically repeats itself, resembles a Walt Disney cinema short. The cartoon shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located at 43rd Street and Broadway, it is a half-block long, two-and-a-half stories high, uses electricity sufficient to illuminate a city of 5,000, will cost P. Lorillard & Co. $5,000 a month...
...City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer Creek, the Olympian was supposed to have waited until an eastbound special, carrying 120 CCC boys, could reach a siding to let the limited go through. But without automatic block signals to remind forgetful engineers of orders in their jumper pockets, the Olympian raced past Ingobar. A mile beyond, it cracked head-on into the CCC train, killed one boy, injured 17 others on the two trains...