Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Lewis the mine blast which killed in men at Centralia, Ill. (TIME, April 7) was his opportunity for revenge. Under the guise of a "memorial" shutdown to let his miners mourn their dead, he found a new and gruesome way to strike, despite Government ownership of the mines, despite the Supreme Court...
...Bayonets. Ohio's Senator Taft, Lilienthal's most potent opponent, had moved to the side of the chamber, away from Senator Vandenberg; New Hampshire's Styles Bridges riffled through a newspaper. Vandenberg continued with a blast at Senators and people outside the Senate who want to return the whole problem of atomic energy to military control: "Mr. President, if we found out one thing truer than another, it is that in peacetime we cannot drive science into its laboratories with bayonets...
Timed to coincide with America's get-tough-with-Russia policy and touched off by President Truman's pre-1948 political housecleaning blast, open season on all Communists of fact or fancy is now in full sway. Relies of Dies Committee days are back at their old stand on Capitol Hill, several state legislatures, including Massachusetts, are operating up-to-date star chambers, and in words strangely reminiscent of the days when Shirley Temple was labelled a dangerous red, Hollywood has been threatened with now investigations. Only the Cincinnati baseball team has escaped censure. Pounded for years from press...
...week's end the force of the Centralia blast had disturbed both state and national politics. Critics of Illinois' Republican Governor Dwight Green tried to bring him to task for the fact that No. 5 had been allowed to run. In Washington, John L. Lewis seized thunderously on the fact that the Government was still, technically, the operator of mines. He cried that his enemy, Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug, was a murderer, and called 400,000 U.S. soft-coal miners out for a week's "memorial" holiday...
...Daingerfield, Tex. (pop. 1,700) the townsfolk were as excited as if a 10,000-barrel gusher had just blown in. But this time the excitement was not over oil. It was over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed...