Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep purchasing power up. The President said, significantly, that this should be done only rarely by raising wages, mostly by cutting prices. He set no precise figure for maximum employment, hoped to maintain the current peak of 58 million. Then, with the nation's productive plant going full blast, the U.S. national output should top 1946's $194 billion...
Instead of a click, there was a blast which echoed down the great tubes. While Pearl stood frozen, people began running, yelling, and pointing to her Christmas-wrapped camera (which police later found to be two long wooden boxes with a sawed-off shotgun wired between). Slowly, stupidly, Pearl walked up to the dark woman who lay in a widening pool of blood...
...show's low high: the third act, when Bert, in a burlesque act that was old when he got his start on the tank-town circuit, gives the show his signature-an awesome, tooth-rattling blast from the incomparable Lahrynx...
...Temper the Wind are a cross section of a Bavarian town, and not so much people as points of view. There is wily Industrialist Benckendorff (Reinhold Schunzel), who has played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go full blast; there is his stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there is Lieut...
...break window glass by concussion, charges must be fired in the open air, a most impractical thing in quarrying operations. Window glass must be subjected to pressures of 1 1/2 lbs. per square inch to break it, whereas air pressure at a few hundred feet from a quarry blast are 1 to two-thousandths of a pound per square inch, the same as those produced by a light summer breeze...