Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman's expected blast at Communism this week, the Democrats dug deep, bought national radio coverage. *John Taber shot back: "Mr. Truman knows that I never made any such statement. What I said was this: 'The minute anyone demands a business administration and elimination of the leeches in the Government payroll, they squeal like a stuck pig.' " *A local delicacy which can be shot only between 4 p.m. and sunset on three days a year...
...Protest. Opportunist Houde pulled out all the stops. He barged into the Montreal offices of the British United Press, dictated a blast against Ottawa's treatment of De Bernonville. "A crying injustice," charged Houde. Gustave Jobi-don, a Quebec City notary, cabled to ex-French Premier Robert Schuman: "French Canada is scandalized . . . Vive Pétain. Vive De Bernonville." Other Parti Canadien backers called De Bernonville "a hero of epic and legendary stature...
...moon Curtice has been trying to shoot recently is Plymouth's No. 3 sales position. Since war's end, Curtice has stepped up Buick's capacity to 500,000 cars a year but he has not been able to get enough steel to run full blast. Nevertheless, he has been treading hard on Plymouth's heels. At this time last year, Plymouth's lead over Buick in new car registrations was 43,130; last week it was only 37,308. As Red Curtice says: "In this business you can't stand still...
...empire he rules was founded in 1867 when Cleveland's Dan Rhodes grubstaked early explorers of the Mesabi. Rhodes took over ore claims for bad debts. Mark Hanna, Rhodes's son-in-law (and later "kingmaker" behind President McKinley), added the ships to haul the ore, blast furnaces to smelt it, and coal mines to provide return cargo...
...there was too much talk and not anywhere near enough damage. But nobody could accuse Henry Kaiser and Republic Steel's President Charles M. White of not trying. Kaiser, in a surprise deal with War Assets Administrator Jess Larson, had snatched the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace from under White's nose (TIME, Aug. 30); last week, when Senator Kenneth Wherry's Small Business Committee looked into that deal, the feud was out in the open...