Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin with, you refer to the Lone Star Steel Co.'s blast furnace as the first and only blast furnace in Texas. This is erroneous. Another blast furnace is in operation at Sheffield Steel Co.'s Houston, Texas, rolling mills, though owned by the DPC. You further state that U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma coal mines which supplied coal to Lone Star, and that U.S. Steel wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant at Houston. The Sheffield plant at Houston is not a fabricating plant. It is a rolling mill equipped...
...tremendous thunderclap, the Grandcamp vanished. Hot steel screamed uptown. A flaming wall of oil-covered water rolled over the docks as the blast picked up a steel barge and flung it 100 yards inland. Two light planes that had been circling over the harbor plummeted down together with 300-lb. chunks of ship's steel. Then, in a splitting series of explosions (one of which flipped a fire truck on top of the beached barge), the Monsanto plant and most of the rest of the waterfront blew...
...well-off Turkey, which could afford pride more easily than Greece. There still was overwhelming sympathy for the U.S.; in a square at Izmir last week, Democratic Party Leader Celal Bayar was making a cautionary speech on the U.S. loan, when the S.S. Exchester let out a mighty whistle blast in the nearby harbor. Bayar interrupted his speech, turned toward the ship and saluted the U.S. flag, while his audience did the same...
...prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best of a bad spot, the Soviet Government played on the people...
Seven innings of no-hit pitching by Johnny Hansen, stocky Yardling pitcher, held the Jayvee nine in check until Freshman batters erupted in the seventh and eighth innings to blast out a 9 to 0 triumph Saturday...