Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been outmoded by multi-motored ships and by modern engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over constantly, they will be choked and useless when he needs them. Hence the pilot "gooses" the motors with short bursts as he comes slanting down to the field...
...hemisphere. Two days later Mexico, on its own initiative, asked Argentina, Brazil and Chile to join with it in impressing upon the Cuban Junta the necessity for a law & order government. While President Roosevelt was backing away from intervention diplomatically, his precautionary plans for military action went forward full blast. He did not intend to exert force but if he had to, he was going to be fully prepared to strike hard and fast. The light cruiser Richmond arrived off Havana from the Canal Zone. Aboard was square-jawed rear Admiral Charles S. Freeman, commander of the Special Service Squadron...
...shorefront from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. The gloomy curtain rolled inland over orchards and cotton fields before the lappings and lashings of the wind. Long muddy-foamed sea waves licked angrily at the shore, tumbled into the lowlands. At Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople were huddled in strong structures on the sand bluffs back of Corpus Christi, waiting. Suddenly the black clouds parted, the moon shone through, the rain ceased. There was an ominous silence. Moonlight...
...people knew just who he was. More of the collection appeared at the Waldorf-Astoria, in Chicago at Marshall Field's, at the Fair. Last week Collector Hammer bobbed up in the news with the announcement that he had two U. S. cooperage plants running full blast making beer kegs from Russian whiteoak staves. Sensing the beer keg shortage he had wangled out of Moscow last May a contract for the entire Russian output of the proper air-dried wood...
...year or two later paid Carnegie $492,000,000 when buying the company to found U. S. Steel. Mellon and Frick lost $1,170,000, the price they had paid Carnegie for the option. Angered, they started Union Steel Co. which promptly began to expand, bought or built blast furnaces, bar, wire, tube, plate mills; went to Mesabi for ore. Mellon provided customers for Union Steel: he started New York Shipbuilding Co. (see p. 41) at Camden and Standard Steel Car. He backed two young men and took a 60% interest in McClintic-Marshall Construction Co. Meantime U. S. Steel...