Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel production is at an abnormal summer rate. U. S. Steel blast furnaces are operating at 71% of capacity, those of independents at 65%. U. S. Steel unfilled orders are 3,620,352. On the Stock Exchange U. S. Steel quotations danced to 156% last week, their record high. Some stock buying speculated on a dividend distribution, some on U. S. Steel's excellent business. At Duluth, iron ore shipments this season are calculated to reach fully 55,000,000 tons, 1,000,000 more than last year...
Canton, seat of Stark County, Ohio, had quieted down for the night. The late President McKinley and his wife slept the long sleep in their granite mausoleum on Monument Hill, with the distant flare of an all-night blast furnace occasionally spreading a ruddy glow over the bronze statue of McKinley, standing tall and pensive above the coffins. Every night the bronze McKinley stands there brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses...
LULU BELLE ? An exciting blast of trash about a Negro singer who graduated to a luxurious Paris boudoir...
...point we know to be about 900 feet from the top. Then a flurry of wind and snow hid them from sight for some time and when we again saw them 75 feet approximately had been gained. We watched them struggle on another 25 feet and again a blast of snow made it impossible for us to know where they were. The air was filled with snow for a long time. For how many minutes I couldn't say. When we again saw the mountain, however, there was not the slightest trace of either climber. Perhaps they were buried where...
...problems are not easy. The obstacles placed by selfish and corrupt influences do not disappear with the blast of a trumpet. The ordinary citizen is intent on his own business. He is hard to arouse and to keep aroused to the fact that good city government is good business and that the small favors he receives from political machines are dearly bought...