Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite so hard hit are the semi-industrial, semi-agricultural regions such as upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Cold blast furnaces drove trade in the Pittsburgh region down 19%. In the furniture manufacturing area near Albany, citizens felt the dearth of new furniture buying and due to that and other causes trade fell 15%. Florida's dwindling tourist influx was offset by a flock of new paper mills to keep the decline to 18%. Birmingham coal and iron mines were less active. Cotton mills in Georgia and the Carolinas, which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part...
...Blast From University Hall...
...would not get them in the kitchen or other back rooms. For the first time since the war began, veteran correspondents in the lobbies of their favorite hotels joined repeatedly in mad, trampling scrambles into back rooms. A direct hit on the Hotel Ritz destroyed the ballroom at one blast. No guest was killed by this bomb, among those who escaped being young Bill Rogers, son of the late great Will...
...Radio the pruning halted at 250. In the United Artists group, only Producer Walter Wanger was working at top speed. Samuel Goldwyn was temporarily inactive, his corps of laborers laid off; Selznick International, geared to leisurely production, had a skeleton staff, the publicity department alone working at full blast. Other studios, already entrenched against the slump, functioned at what now passes for normal speed...
...meanwhile, in the gloom of Arctic winter, Leader Ivan Papanin glimpsed the searchlight beam from an icebreaker 40 miles away. That was the Taimyr, laboring toward them through the pack ice. At 20 miles, the going was so difficult that the Taimyr's commander thought of trying to blast a channel through the pack, but this plan was discarded as impractical. The men on the "station" marked out with flags a safe landing place on the ice near their floe, and the first contact was made by airplane...