Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army's motomechanizirovannyia chasti (motorized, tank and mechanized units) also include light, self-propelled 45-mm. guns, slightly larger than those on U.S. light tanks, and bigger (76-mm.) mobile field guns to blast heavily defended enemy points before the tanks attack...
...fellow countrymen knew why the Red Armies were relatively well supplied and were winning victories. Veronika knew that: >Much of Soviet industry had been evacuated to the Urals and Siberia, where it was producing more tons of products than all Soviet pre-war industry. >In Magnitogorsk a giant new blast furnace had been blown in, a strange, but fitting, Christmas present from the Russian people to themselves. >Baku oil production was 40% above...
Henry J. Kaiser realized another dream last week. At Fontana, Calif., 45 miles east of Los Angeles in the heart of the wine and walnut belt, he watched his wife pull a switch and blow in his new 1,200-ton blast furnace, named in her honor "the Bess." The blowing in of the pig-iron furnace, just eight months after Henry Kaiser broke ground for her where a pig-breeding farm had once flourished, meant that the West Coast for the first time in its history had a fully integrated steel plant...
WASHINGTON--Eight Jap destroyers trying to blast their way through the American blockade with reinforcements and supplies for the starving enemy garrison on Guadalcanal were attacked by U.S. motor torpedo boats which hit one vessel and scored three possible hits on two others, the Navy said today...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...