Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with a $14,000,000 backlog of unfilled orders and enough new contracts in sight to keep his plant running full blast through 1940, Glenn Martin decided he needed more money for working capital and expansion. He will offer to stockholders in the ratio of one new share for each six now held 156,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. common at $20 a share (last week's market price: $33). It will be the first new financing by an important aviation company since Boeing raised $3,789,600 in June 1937. Rearmament-conscious Wall Street...
Meanwhile, red-hot embers of Les Nouvelles Galeries settled down on the fuel storage tanks in the basement. Suddenly these exploded with a blast heard for miles, set fire to other hotels and buildings on famed La Cannebiere. This is the street of which all Marseille has boasted for generations on postcards sold to tourists: "Ah, if Paris only had a Cannebiere it would be a 'Little Marseille...
...discuss the prospect of Palestine being closed to outcast Jews as a homeland. President Roosevelt promised to high-pressure England. Worrying Senator Wagner also was the sudden strength of Republican John Lord O'Brian's campaign against him for reelection. He sought and received the full-blast backing of the New Deal publicity machine...
Some of the basic reasons for these good tidings were visible in last week's figures on the flow of money. With gold still pouring in, U. S. stocks crossed $14,000,000,000 for the first time. With pump-priming going full blast, the 1938 Treasury deficit reached $979,000,000 against $449,000,000 for the same period last year...
...yards of a large bomb will be torn to pieces, and the pieces thrown for hundreds of yards. A brick wall is not merely knocked down. It is shattered into a hail of projectiles which may kill people at a great distance. At a still greater distance the blast is translated into a wave of sound, but a sound like that of the last trumpet which literally flattens out everything in front of it. ... It is the last sound that many people ever hear, even if they are not killed, because their eardrums are burst in and they are deafened...