Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time the synthetic rubber program should also be going full blast. That will make guayule production look like peanuts. But unless synthetic tire technology improves enormously between now and next year, every pound of guayule will still be badly needed, because it still takes some natural rubber to make a satisfactory heavy-duty tire. Considering that the Nazis, with 25 years of synthetic rubber experimentation behind them, still mix crude with synthetic rubber, Salinas has good cause to feel safe and strategic-at least for the duration...
Coming to Harvard last year, Colonel Doniat has guided the Field Artillery unit through many developments and changes. It was his energy which promoted the weekly "Muzzle Blast" and other efforts to increase esprit de corps. During his stay the unit's headquarters were moved from old Wadsworth House to Shannon Hall, and as he leaves, the remnants of the unit face absorption into the Army Training Program...
...there were some walls of frustration and doubt which the President could, if he chose, blast with his own trumpet...
Walter Winchell, Broadway's No. 1 needler, had broadcast a blast ("damn fools") at last fall's voters who had voted for isolationist Congressmen (TIME, Feb. 22). Outraged Congressmen talked of an investigation of Winchell's Navy service. To stop the bad publicity for the Navy, Frank Knox this week announced that the Navy's best-known lieutenant commander had been put on inactive duty. Michigan's bitter Congressman Clare Hoffman, who had often been Winchellacked, chortled: "No longer will Navy men wince at the spectacle of a Broadway gossiper sporting a lieutenant commander...
What they could not explain was the landscaping project which was going full blast last week. Between the Pentagon and the Potomac men were working with picks & shovels, bulldozers and trucks, moving tons of earth and stone, lugging in tons of grass seed...