Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory is that 100 such bombs so aimed by 100 such hell-divers could not fail to blast the toughest target...
...deck, and then the magazine's 9-inch armor ceiling-a total of 13¼ inches of armor. But the bomb would explode and stop penetrating when it hit the very first deck. Alternatively, it would have to penetrate the 10-inch armor of a turret barbette; or blast in through a gunport, ignite a powder train down through an elevator to the magazine. Ever since three British capital ships were blown up at Jutland by failure of their flash screens, turret design has been perfected to render such accidents next to impossible. Clever though their story...
...first blast of criticism was set off by Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair, big Scottish landowner, Legion of Honor hero in World War I and among Winston Churchill's closest advisers. Mentioned among the ginger groups as a possible Prime Minister because he did a good job as Secretary of State for Scotland in Ramsay Macdonald's Cabinet and yet stands well with the Tories, Sir Archibald demanded a "grand inquest." "I hope," he thundered to an Edinburgh audience, "that it is not too late for craven and irresolute counsels to be suppressed. ... I am amazed...
Moreover, though Chambermen attacked New Deal administrative methods, they did not demand complete repeal of New Deal laws. Investment Bankers Association's Emmett F. Connely, after a hot blast against TNEC, suggested "innumerable instances where the administration of the laws as they now stand could be simplified to everyone's benefit without changing the law itself." Henning Prentis said: "Let government amend those laws that are obviously unfair to the businessman in certain particulars, such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Wage and Hour Act, and the two Securities acts." Yale & Towne's President W. Gibson...
Chief significance of the Hoover blast was the fact that hotel men had made and distributed thousands of reprints of it. For today the 25-year-old tourist-camp industry is a big business which is a rival of small-town hotels. In 1935 tourist camps took in $24,300,000. California (No. 1 U. S. tourist-camp State with 1,440 camps) did almost $5,000,000 worth of business. Still small beside the $900,000,000 hotel industry, tourist camps have multiplied since 1935, have spread along all the nation's highways from West to East...