Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What an infinitely calm, reassuring and soothing picture this presents!" Provincial Partisans. As they do the year round, the great metropolitan news papers and chains have set the pace for the rest of the nation's daily press during the campaign. Of the lesser chain publishers, peripatetic Paul Block, with seven dailies in his pocket, has pattered in the footsteps of William Randolph Hearst...
...another and more famed apartment project, the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartments for Negroes. Built by Mr. Rockefeller in 1927 as a low-cost, co-operative housing venture to provide decent living quarters for a small fraction of Harlem's black population, the handsomely-gardened buildings occupy a full block, bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 149th and 150th Streets. They contain 511 apartments, largely units of four and five rooms. Adhering to the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy with a purpose, Mr. Junior planned not only to house disadvantaged Negroes but also to prove that it could be done...
...years, during which rental payments covered purchases of stock in the Dunbar corporation. At the end of 22 years-the period set for amortization of the Rockefeller mortgage- the amount of stock owned by each tenant was to be equivalent to the value of his apartment, and the whole block of buildings would be cooperatively owned. Depression, however, ruined that scheme. Unemployed tenants were allowed to pay rent out of their stock accumulations, but otherwise the financial set-up was as inflexible as the usual real-estate capitalization. No matter what shift was adopted, fixed charges could...
Harvard's score came in the first minute of the second period, when Melien, crimson guard broke through to block Mattlage's kick. The ball rolled back into the end zone and win Jameson fell on it for the touchdown. Jerome's kick for the extra point was blocked...
...brandishers at Margate it also appeared radical that His Majesty's Government, who know perfectly well that the House of Lords may be emasculated or swept away once a Labor Cabinet with a big majority gets in, have done nothing to block such a development. Again by virtual unanimity last week the Margate Conference resolutioned in favor of "reforms" calculated to deprive the House of Commons or any other authority of ability ever to abolish the House of Lords...