Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dividends of $152,250,000-a return of 100 for 1 to the Boston stockholders on their original investment. But in 1907, when copper enjoyed one of its booms, the Michigan Copper Country was already on the down grade. Again during the War all the mines started up full blast. In 1929, as a last triumphant gasp, C. & H. made 90,000,000 lb. of copper. The rest is drabness. The 100,000,000 tons of ore remaining among the lava flows probably average no more than 1% copper. To the West are bigger companies with richer ores. And Canada...
...crowd outside the jail felt fine. Several thousand folk, hysterical as lynchers, held carnival. The bars of the Union Hotel were running full blast. A butcher boy had his pocket picked. From time to time a tipsy woman would yell: "Kill Hauptmann! Electrocute...
Rigidly barred from the Soviet Union last week was a brief blast from Great Exile Leon Trotsky, scholarly elaborator of the Doctrine of Permanent Revolution and No. 1 enemy of Stalin. At the Kirov trials, the State has charged that an unnamed "foreign consul" in Leningrad gave Assassin Nikolaev money and asked him for "a letter to Trotsky...
...Nothing Easier!" To keep Saarlanders happy and ready to hand over their francs, Germany's propaganda machine roared full blast. Ex-Schoolmaster Josef Bürckel, recently appointed Governor of the Saar, informed German capitalists, already saddled with a major unemployment problem, that they owe it to the Fatherland to give jobs at once to the 40,000 Saar unemployed...
Mounting orders from the automobile industry have accounted for most of the blast furnaces blown in during the past few weeks, but demand from other sources is also swelling. Carnegie Steel last week received a 24,000-ton rail order, equal to nearly 15% of all the rails it rolled last year...