Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to housing the officers of the Mil Sci Department the SAE House will contain the Cadet Regimental Headquarters, which are now in Grays Hall, a special office for the Muzzle Blast the Cadet newspaper, and special rooms for rest and diversion...
There was some good news about rubber last week, but-as the careful newspaper reader could see-it went no further than a new hope of meeting really essential needs during the year and a half before the 800,000-ton synthetic program can get going full blast. Last month the President warned car owners that before long the police might come around to jack up their cars, remove their tires, and put them on some war worker's jalopy. Last week's news-if it pans out-said that, one way and another, essential civilian needs (trucks...
...possible? The U.S. has close to 50% of all the world's steel capacity, enough at full blast to roll out 90,000,000 ingot tons this year. How could this fail to be enough? There are all kinds of reasons-all of them shocking or tragic or both, none of them conclusive...
This record is all the more remarkable because the principal business of Stormoviks is not to shoot down Nazis. The Stormoviks are ground-strafers. With their two cannon and two machine guns, they swoop down to ten or 15 meters, then blast away at tanks, motorized vehicles, grounded planes and troops. One of our visitors was a young lieutenant who had the tail of his Stormovik shot away when he was hardly ten meters (32 ft.) off the ground. Nevertheless he landed well inside the Russian lines, with his hip and both sides of his face injured, and walked back...
...relied on them for 40 to 60% of the charge in their furnaces. But now the U.S. needs scrap and needs it badly because there are not enough 1) open-hearth furnaces to produce steel at the slower rate required when higher percentages of pig iron are used, 2) blast furnaces to make pig for all the steel. The furnace handicap will be overcome if the sponge-iron process can 'be perfected, since sponge-iron plants can be built more quickly and cheaply than new blast furnaces, are cheaper to operate...