Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budge from their offer of $6.21. Reopening of Northern mines, strike-shut for two weeks, would return two-thirds of the nation's soft-coal fields to production. A few steel plants, which use soft coal converted into coke, had already had to shut down some of their blast furnaces. There were still prayers to be answered before peace in the whole defense industry prevailed...
...paid much attention two years ago when Carrier air-conditioned a blast furnace for Woodward Iron Co., subsequently claimed an increased output and a 200-lb.-per-ton saving in coke.* Woodward followed up with two more furnaces, Jones & Laughlin with two. But to most ironmongers air conditioning furnaces at $75,000 looked too expensive so long as 35% of their plant was idle...
...have the courage, you will blast the U. S. Navy which has always discriminated against colored Americans. No colored American has ever graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy. Many have attended...
Thomason, hopping mad, construed this as a direct slap at him. Waving aside his editorial writer, Warren H. Pearce, he took a day off to write a return blast, titled "The Integrity of Words." Excerpts: ". . . We proved that Hitler who stands for everything Americans don't stand for, likes the things the Tribune said it stood for. ... The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...
...Marxist revolutionary murals on which Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros rode to fame has pretty well petered out today, but the art of easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money...