Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next he took on "appeasers and. compromisers" in a brief blast at Isolationists, whether Democratic or Republican, in a message to the Young Democrats convention in Louisville...
...tons will be located is not yet known. But it will probably hit the map at or near the spots where 6,508,950 tons (11%) of new pig-iron capacity, recommended by OPM last month, is scheduled to arise. In addition to enlargement and rehabilitation of existing blast furnaces, the pig-iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo...
...hair in 1920, was a name to conjure with in days gone by. To go along with him on the statement, 14 other potent signatures of a slightly younger vintage were rounded up. Then Patriarch Lowden, who once was a brave Midwestern anti-isolationist, handed out an isolationist blast saying...
...Says Dr. Miller, detonation of bombs often causes definite brain injury in persons near by. But today, instead of shell shock, doctors call it blast concussion. The force of a bomb exploding may exert suction or compression on the abdomen, violently displacing fluid in the brain, sometimes ruptures tiny cerebral blood vessels. The nervous system undergoes an enormous shock, and psychological storms follow, even though the patients may be unscratched. Such mental upsets, said Dr. Crichton-Miller, have "no intrinsic connection with . . . morale, courage, discipline, or any other ethical virtue...
Last week the American Business Congress, sounding board for small manufacturers, met in Manhattan and sent off a blast to OPM insisting that they be allowed to participate in the defense effort, thus escape "wholesale extinction." They called for mandatory subcontracting, pools of small plants for defense production, coordinated allocation of civilian supplies, control of "unwarranted accumulation of 'priority' materials." While the Business Congress named no names, this might have been directed at automakers, who have had little trouble getting enough supplies for full production up to now. President Roosevelt himself (in a letter to Michigan...