Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated 500 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. The announcement that the long-range P-38s had been used foreshadowed a new technique in aerial bombardment.* The raids on Kiska also foreshadowed the day when U.S air power, flowing north over the new Canadian inland air route, may blast the Japs out of Kiska-and move on toward Tokyo...
...front of the blast furnaces at Schifflange, men paused to talk. Somebody turned off the blowers that forced the drafts into the fires. The strike was on. The German-controlled newspaper, Nationalblatt, called the strikers "enemy agents...
...attack the desert has yet seen. Along with the British planes were U.S. bombers of Colonel C. G. Goodrich's command and U.S. fighters under the command of Brigadier General Auby Strickland. They routed the Luftwaffe by the very weight of numbers, until they were able to blast Rommel at will, morning, noon and night...
Those who had not been through it before thought that was all, but it wasn't. Now, last of all, came the sound, no shriek of the bomb falling, but the sudden, shocking, dull, booming blast of the explosion...
...warned by the steel industry's Salvage Committee that "only a miracle" can prevent the curtailment of steel production within several months for lack of scrap. Bluff Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the Services of Supply, said: "You are not going to get scrap by one blast in your papers. You will have to keep after it day & night, for unless everybody puts everything he has into this war, we are not going...