Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently freshmen have gazed with wonder and admiration at workmen carefully warming the stone gate with blast torches. One suggested termites as the cause of this activity...
...mining engineer, Lieut. Caetani calmly proposed to blow off the entire mountain top. "Let's get under their seats," he said, "and blast." With 80 picked miners Prince Caetani drove a tunnel nearly half a mile long into the living rock, so quietly that the Austrians noticed nothing. Five tons of nitroglycerin were tamped into the galleries. On the night of April 17, 1916 the Engineer Prince was ready...
...tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past the Iron Works toward higher ground, the pursuing water tried to drown the red-hot blast furnaces. The explosion killed a score, injured...
Last week all of Elliott White Springs' seven mills with their 400,000 spindles were running full blast, as if their 7,000 non-union workers had never heard of the strike call...
...this good news, nor the prophecies of Major L. L. B. ("Coming American Boom'') Angas, nor a blast of optimism from Propheteer Roger Babson, nor the fact that the American Federation of Labor plumped for the profit system, nor the universal pessimism of brokers' market letters-sure sign of better times ahead-could prevent the stockmarket from going down, down...