Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsenhower wrapped himself in mystery. At a press conference in New Hampshire he declared: "I don't want anything to do with politics." The same day, in Washington, Major General Floyd L. Parks, the Army's publicity boss, had issued a blast against the Draft-Eisen-hower-for-President League (TIME, Sept. 22). He also dropped a hint that Ike might not be out of uniform until next April, instead of on Jan. 1, as expected. Many a political observer had come to the conclusion that Ike wants nothing to do with the nomination unless it comes...
...laid off. With General Motors limping along at only 65% of capacity, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said that "it looks as if it would be two years at least" before there was enough steel. Ford Motor Co. did more than grumble; it earmarked $18 million to build a blast furnace and buy a secondhand rolling mill to turn out steel itself...
...last week Ivins walked out to the garage (past the spot in his yard where he had once killed a Negro). Danny waited for "Grandpa" to back out his battered 1941 Ford coupe. Ivins touched the starter button. An explosion ripped the car apart. Danny, bowled over by the blast, was not seriously hurt. Burkett Ivins lived long enough to mutter: "I'm done in for good-but to think they would do that to my Danny." Beside him was his .45 Colt automatic...
Target: Toscanini. Victim of O'Connell's fiercest blast is Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The Maestro seen here is ill-natured, stubborn, suspicious, resentful. The reason for O'Connell's dislike is soon apparent: Toscanini once informed RCA Victor that he would make no records while Director O'Connell was present...
...first blast was against President Truman. In Moscow's Literary Gazette, Novelist Boris Garbatov, famed in the U.S.S.R. for his wartime best seller, The Unvanquished, likened Truman to Hitler. A protest from U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith got nowhere. So last week the State Department released the full text in the U.S. Excerpts...