Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprise for this year's conference turned out to be a "free-spinning" vertical wind tunnel, first in the U.S. The huge, upended cylinder is 15 ft. in diameter, has an observation platform surrounding it, a propeller to furnish a 50-m.p.h. blast of air. Some 300 pairs of eyes, including Col. Lindbergh's, fairly popped as they watched a 3-1 scale model demonstrate how an airplane behaves in the dreaded tailspin...
Wake Island consists of three tiny jungle-clad atolls-Wilkes, Peale and Wake proper. Last week the advance construction crew ran into difficulties on Wilkes. Days of digging, drilling and blasting under a broiling sun revealed no drinking water. Further difficulties arose when the men tried to blast a ship channel between Wilkes and Peale, to facilitate unloading the supply ship North Haven. The hard coral barrier proved so resistant to dynamite that the project was abandoned. Meanwhile on Wake Island proper, a brilliant electric light system was in operation, and the Pan American pioneers looked forward to "movies...
...wild natives who make a business of ducklegging. Their traps are funnel-mouthed wire contrivances baited with corn, catching up to 40 duck at one haul. Wardens have lately captured three 8-ft., home-made cannon which fire 2 Ib. of shot, kill up to 300 duck at a blast. Trappers ship out between 200.000 and 400.000 duck per year under label of seafood, are said to operate through a syndicate which smuggles the duck into city markets where they are presumably bought by individuals and clubs...
...more cheerful, the convening Chambermen undertook to criticize the New Deal-only to have the President tell them sharply to stop crying ''Wolf!" By last week business profits had recovered enough to send the Chambermen to Washington with eyes ablaze. For three days they proceeded to blast the New Deal and all its works...
...under the dictatorship of a President, not under the dictatorship or the fear of a high commissioner of prostituted patronage which tends to make America a one-party government. We are not organized to compete with the old parties. But we are organizing under a definite necessity to blast out of existence the reactionaries, the threadbare conservatives and the hypocrites who disgrace the halls of Congress as they impede the movement towards the goal of social justice...