Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...inches and slamming into a picture. Colonel Charles Deerwester, U.S. Air Attache, coolly stretched a string from the hole in the picture to the hole in the window, took a sight along the line. The string pointed straight to a seventh-floor window of police headquarters, a block and a half away. "Damned good marksman," said Deerwester...
...marked increase in the demand for workers. In Long Beach, Cal., Douglas Aircraft got an $8,000,000 order to recondition about 200 B-26 bombers, began hiring an additional 1,500 men. In San Diego, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft's appeal for 3,000 additional workers brought a block-long line of applicants to its gates...
...chattering glibly, reading endless commercials and playing records, the average disc jockey makes about $7,000 a year. U.S. radio employs thousands of them (e.g., Los Angeles has 30 disc jockeys). Most of them hope some day to make as much as New York's Martin Block ($200,000 a year), who claims-over the protests of Arthur Godfrey-to have been the first of his kind...
...defend him, and, out on bail, exhorted his followers anew. "When you get your eyes off Jesus, you'll always go down. How many say amen?" shouted Tom. "Amen," screamed the congregation. Student evangelists from his three schools, flashing their bright gold-and-navy sweaters with the big block Ps, passed the collection plate. Weekdays, between sessions in the dingy classrooms over a downtown furniture store, they picketed the courthouse noisily...
...steam out of FRB's case by selling 22 of its banks to the Bank of America for $18 million, thus cutting its holdings in California to only four banks Angrily, FRB went to the U.S. circuit court of appeals in San Francisco and got an injunction to block the sale on grounds as the court put it, that Transamerica might be contriving ... to circumvent the proceedings" before FRB. But that did not stop Mario Giannini. He proceeded to move into his new banks, emblazoning the name Bank of America on all 22 front windows. Furthermore he said that...