Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...molybdenum. They offered 5 to 6% more than U. S. prices for Mexican antimony, copper, fluorspar, tungsten. Another Mexican motive was thought to be a covering move against possible U. S. embargo pressure: Mexico could tell the U. S. she would gladly embargo oil, but could not block operations of Japanese-controlled firms actually operating in Mexico...
...Sears, Roebuck Heiress Mrs. Marion Rosenwald Stern (represented on PM's board by her man-of-business Nathan Levin who runs the 70-odd Rosenwald family money pools), buyer of PM's No. 1 block of stock, representing a $250,000 investment...
...Children love block printing. They love the tarry smell of the sticky ink. They love the rolling and the pressing. The cutting satisfies like whittling on the oldtime school desk...
...Cole believes that "children are wonderful," that a teacher's main job is to free them of fears and inhibitions, bring out their natural sense of rhythm and beauty. "Art," says she, "has been emasculated by adult flower arrangers." In teaching her pupils painting, platemaking, block printing, dancing, writing, Mrs. Cole urges them on with the same admonition: "Swing!" Other Coleisms...
Recluse Wilhelm did well by his home town. He built its enormous Hollywood Theatre, its biggest business block after the fire of 1926. Throughout the depression he kept all his employes (800) in all his plants (8) on full pay. When he died, one of them called him "the most wonderful man that ever lived...