Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First result of Mr. Hearst's tax blast were cordial invitations from Mayor Charles D. White of Atlantic City, President William A. Eastman of the Seattle Real Estate Board, Governor Dave Sholtz of Florida,* to come and live in their in-come-tax-free communities. Second result was an indignant clamor from Californians of high & low degree against Mr. Hearst s publicizing their income tax. State Assemblyman Ford A. Chatters, author of the new law, claimed that the State's Community Property Law would enable a man to split his taxable income with his wife and thus avoid...
...smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread a sickening stench. Firemen, menaced by loops of live wires, were afraid to cut into the shambles with acetylene torches because of fumes. The last of the dead was not removed until four days after the blast. Toll: eleven killed, 45 injured...
...under pressure. Last week's jury of scientists looked along this line of operations for vulnerable spots. They found that two 4,000-gal. tanks of hexane had not exploded. Neither had the two 50,000-gal. oil storage tanks, nor the stills, nor the pressure apparatus. The blast, in fact, seemed to have originated in the flaking room, might have been due to a dust explosion...
...There was none of the empty or 'gone' feeling in the abdomen so common in elevators and in airplanes. The eyes, although unprotected from the high wind blast, were not irritated. . . . Breathing was even, regular and undisturbed...
...Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...