Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, with an angry blast at California's then new 15% income tax law and a comparison of tax collectors to gangsters & gunmen, William Randolph Hearst changed his legal residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned...
...night last week, after work had been suspended for the day, watchmen passed through the air lock of the north tube, opened the door leading to the boring shield, were met by a blast of smoke. Inside a great, licking blaze, whetted by the high oxygen content of the compressed air, was feeding on timbers, sawdust and salt hay in the unfinished bore. Backing out through the lock, they found the telephone short-circuited, the elevator not running, had to climb ten flights of stairs up the ventilating shaft to sound an alarm...
...John L. Lewis' hands then lay the ticklish problem of whether to risk shaky U.A.W.'s equilibrium further by encouraging a convention that might either affirm or break Homer Martin's authority, or blast U.A.W. permanently...
While Government thus edged one step further into Radio, National Association of Broadcasters' Mark Ethridge, most effective voice the broadcasters have found, cracked back at "capsule culture," which sounded to him like an effort to foist etherized Hitlerism. With this parting blast at Government-in-Radio, Temporary President Ethridge retired to devote all his time to running the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times and Station WHAS. Appointed to succeed him as mouthpiece of the industry was another Louisvillian: Neville Miller, 44, who gained national prominence as mayor of the city during the 1937 flood, has served lately as assistant...
This indignant blast by Producer Walter Wanger last month; announcement that during the filming of Blockade mysterious strangers had been snooping about the set; and a report that when it was completed, a print was sent to General Franco's agents were all characteristic of the ballyhoo preceding the release of this picture. Consequently, when Blockade finally appeared last week, the cinema industry justifiably anticipated a polemic sensation that would jolt other producers' self-imposed silence on controversial subjects from totalitarian government to the relative merits of Scotch and bourbon whiskey...