Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boulevards were shining with the façades of new public buildings and loud with the riveting of further construction. There was talk of building a resplendent new capitol out in suburban Quezon City. The dining rooms and bars of a huge new jai alai palace were going full blast. So was the new, prophetically named Casa Mañana nightclub...
...would be captured by U. S. Steel and Bethlehem. Reason: each derives great leverage from its heavy (structural) steel capacity, cleans up when this last, higher-profit margin of its capacity goes to work. Last week U. S.'s and Bethlehem's leverage departments were at full blast, and their profits were multiplying in line with expectations. Items: for the first nine months of 1940, U. S. Steel made $3.33 per ton of capacity against 59? at the same time last year. Bethlehem made $3.97 per ton against only $1.34 for the same period last year...
...offices; lovely old St. Michael's cathedral-all fell under the most concentrated rain of destruction yet loosed from the skies by mankind. What the Nazis had done to tiny Guernica in the Spanish war, to Warsaw by degrees and to a section of Rotterdam in one short blast, the Germans now did to Coventry. In the morning, what had been a thriving city was a smoldering pile of rubble where dazed, stunned survivors wandered aimlessly, and rescue parties from other cities scrabbled in the ruins to dig out hundreds buried dead and alive...
...week, as Alabama steel mills roared at 100% of capacity (Iron Age said 109%), tall, redheaded, reticent T. C. I. Chief Robert Gregg announced the 18-month expansion which will boost his pig-iron capacity more than 20% to over 2,000,000 tons. Steelman Gregg will add one blast furnace (boosting Alabama's active total to 191, renovate 18 standing open-hearth furnaces, build 70 coke ovens, install a 140-inch plate mill, modernize all mining operations...
Also on the program is another Dr. Kildare picture which has no distinguishing features aside from a blast for socialized medicine that ought to put the entire membership of the A.M.A. in bed for a week. And finally there is Donald Duck and Pluto in a sequence on bathing which is by far the best thing on the program...