Word: blast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combed the files for old tomatoes to throw at Cummings. They could find little or nothing-even after they had called the victim himself for help. Highly amused, A.J. told the News Chronicle to give Beaver's boys anything they wanted. When the Standard finally got its editorial blast together, the unpredictable Beaver objected that it didn't give his old personal friend and political enemy his due as a journalist. The more Lord Beaverbrook thought about it, the greater journalist Cummings became...
...jammed the "Royal Mile" between Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle to watch the ceremonial parade to dour St. Giles's Cathedral, led by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in heraldic tabard, looking as if he had stepped off a playing card. In the cavernous cathedral, with a blast of trumpets, the festival was formally opened-a festival that would hear, before it was over, some 1,500 musicians, including seven orchestras, four choirs, four chamber ensembles, and an opera company...
...Republic operated the plant for the Defense Plant Corp., after the war continued to operate it under an interim lease. The WAA plant supplied iron for Republic's Cleveland mills and that, in turn, made it possible for Republic to sell pig iron from its other blast furnaces to hundreds of Northeastern foundries. With a defense program on, White did not think that the Government would disturb this complex setup...
...twelve months lean, hard-bitten Charles M. White, president of Republic Steel Corp., has been playing two-handed poker for gigantic stakes. His opponent: War Assets Administrator Jess Larson. The stakes: the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace and coke plant, one of the world's largest...
Ante & Ace. Last winter, when Larson asked Republic and other would-be operators to ante up, White offered to rent the 450,000-ton blast furnace and 382,000-ton coke plant for a minimum rental of $300,000 a year. "Not enough," snapped Larson. Charlie White decided to stand pat. Larson offered the plant to Republic for $2,500,000 a year and White turned him down flat. Larson then offered to arbitrate the price but White refused. Then, early this month, White played some aces. With only a few weeks for his interim lease to run, he threatened...