Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this opening blast, Senator Borah last week started for Boise by way of Chicago. After a month's rest, he said, he would carry out his promise. Conviction and not political necessity will take this one-man-party out on the stump because Senator Borah will not come up for re-election until 1936. But then all seasons are open seasons for the Great Opposer...
...advantage of big lumber millers. In one case a New England contractor was required to pay mill costs plus a "phantom" rail carrying charge on a 400-mi. haul, although the mill was only 72 mi. away. Same practice was prevalent in the cement industry. Biggest Darrow blast was directed against the retail code. Originally containing specific provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between its adoption and final promulgation. Responsible, hinted the report, was the influence of one potent "socially and politically" figure in the industry...
...naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns in a red Pontiac sedan that suddenly rolled alongside a monster Havana...
...morning last week fog curled in thick shrouds around the little vessel. Useless was the 16,000 candlepower electric light glaring on her masthead. Every 15 seconds her fog whistle emitted a mournful blast. The beacon signal, sounded by a motor-driven key controlled by clockwork, went out continuously instead of on the fair weather schedule of 15 min. every hour. The submarine oscillograph, synchronized with the beacon, throbbed cyclic warnings through the water...
...past two seasons a U. S. Cavalcade has been agitated. Mr. Flournoy's drama may lack the bugle blast of Empire, but it is a tender record of an enduring, decent people...