Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ever knows how many December stock transactions represent tax selling, but it was clear that many of this month's deals were made with March in mind. One day a block of 30,000 shares of New York, New Haven & Hartford was sold for $1,875 (6¼? a share), or $675 less than the seller (possibly Pennroad Corp.) had to pay in commissions and transfer taxes. Corn Products Refining Corp., which pays a $3 dividend and sold as high as $65.12 this year, went at a bargain near its eight-year...
London itself, however, clearly showed the scars of incessant bombing, Fulton stated, with scarcely a city block in the entire metropolitan area untouched. Four types of bombs, 50-250, and 500-kilo bombs, and a heavy land-mine which descends by parachute are being used in the attacks on London, he said...
...THOUSAND THANKS FOR KIND TREATMENT [TIME, NOV. 25] AT A TIME WHEN I CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED TO HAVE MY BLOCK KNOCKED OFF, BUT CANNOT HELP FEELING A LITTLE UNHAPPY THAT YOU FELT THE URGE TO USE A PICTURE TAKEN ON THE ONE DAY THAT I'D MISLAID MY HINDS HONEY & ALMOND CREAM...
Suddenly its left wing dropped and the arrow-straight line of its flight path was broken. Inside the cabin a woman screamed. There was a horrible crash as the big silver monoplane broke an electric line. Beyond, only a block from the field, she hit the ground, burst asunder. From houses near by, residents of Cicero Avenue rushed to the wreck, carried out six dead, four who were to die before week's end, six who survived...
Third to the chopping block was Admiral Domenico Cavagnari, Chief of Staff and Under Secretary of the Navy. If Albania was bad, what has happened to the Italian Fleet is horrible - whittled down in each & every encounter it has had with the British. To replace Cavagnari, Mussolini chose Admiral Arturo Riccardi, with Admiral Angelo Jacchino taking the new post of Commander of the Fleet...