Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Niagara was sunk by a German mine 28 miles off eastern New Zealand in June 1940. All hands were saved. An Australian salvager, Captain J. P. Williams, found the Niagara in February 1941. From a telephone-equipped diving bell divers directed the lowering of explosives to blast through to the small bullion room in the ship's center. Next they lowered a grab into the murky interior of the bullion room. Last Dec. 7 the job was done. Last week the news finally leaked out: more than eight tons of gold had been retrieved...
Kaiser had already begun the decentralization on his own hook. He started building his own engines in California, has a blast furnace there, hopes to make plate. Shipbuilders regarded his independence as inevitable, even as part of the original deal. By that deal, Kaiser in effect swapped his engineering skill for lessons in shipbuilding. Now he has his lessons, Todd its ways...
...after Wayne Parrish's blast, Donald Nelson could wait no longer. He jumped all aircraft materials, all materials for antiaircraft guns & parts...
...condition blast furnaces...
General MacArthur continued to direct a defense that matched the Japanese attack in cunning. His line of communications between the Peninsula and Fort Corregidor remained open. His shore defense guns continued to blast Jap flanking attacks. His artillery counterfire from Manila Bay's forts, in his own terse words, "has been effective." His ack-ack guns and runty Air Force were deadly: last week they brought down 15 Japanese planes, including two dive-bombers that mistakenly strafed their own infantry (a regiment of General Akira Nara's 65th Division) with heavy casualties. His observation that the invaders were...