Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half ago a WAF photo-interpreter, Flying Officer Constance Babington-Smith, gave the first alarm: she spotted a plane model in a picture taken over the German experimental station at Peenemünde. A black smudge around the model looked like the burn of a rocket blast...
From the U.S. last week came another blast by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Argentina, he said, was the center of fascist activities in this hemisphere...
...crematorium might have been a big bakeshop or a very small blast furnace. Here the Nazis carted the bodies, straight from the gas chambers. They cut them up scientifically. They put the chunks on iron stretchers, slid them on rollers into the five greedy mouths of the coke-fed ovens. They could disintegrate 1,900 people a day. "There was great economy," said Kudriavtsev. "These furnaces also heated the water for the camp...
...steel industry is still operating full blast, chewing up scrap as fast as ever, but buying very little in advance. Steelmen are thinking about steel's future when the U.S. cuts back war production. The break in scrap prices last week was reminiscent of the weakness in scrap prices in the fall...
...first big blast at the U.S.-British oil agreement (TIME, Aug. 21) came last week from Sun Oil's President J. Howard Pew. In an open letter to Chairman Tom Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pew said his chief objection was the "vagueness" of the language, which could make the agreement "as in nocuous or as vicious as its administrators desire." Suspiciously he hinted that the agreement contains "the possibility of a first step in what might be a carefully laid plan for a superstate cartel." Since a government cartel "is no less reprehensible than a cartel...