Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smart Blast. By last week it was clear that the Germans had made perhaps their smartest move in their play for time by blasting the floodgates of the Schwammenauel dam. The Roer, usually only 75 feet wide and knee-deep, at some points was more than 1,000 feet of brown water spilled over forested flatlands. At others it was a raging, narrow torrent...
...potential military uses. The jet plane gives an amazingly smooth, comfortable ride, with no vibration, little noise. Passengers would hear only the rush of air over the plane's wings; groundlings do not hear the plane at all until it is overhead, when it whooshes past like the blast of a giant blowtorch. Equipped with a pressurized cabin, the plane is expected to cruise at well over 400 m.p.h., and to fly at altitudes above the prewar U.S. record (43,166 ft). Once a pilot gets used to it, it is easier to fly than a fast propeller-driven...
...ground, the P-59, needing no clearance for a propeller, presents an odd, squat profile with an upswept rear end (to keep out of the way of the hot blast from the jets). Ground crewmen give the plane a wide berth at its takeoff; anyone within 20 feet of the jets would be burned to a crisp. But in the air, the fuel is burned so completely in the combustion chamber that the jets show no flame, even at night. The openings in front of the plane through which air is sucked into the motor posed a problem: they also...
...industry knew all about the reasons for the slump. They were as obvious as a blast furnace: shortages of manpower, fuel and scrap, and a surplus of new war orders that upset production schedules. There was a new one, too: the weather...
...Even so, the Post last week found the opinions of two of its top columnists, Dorothy Thompson and Edgar Ansel Mowrer, more than it could bear. The offending pair were thereupon taken to task by Post Editor Ted O. Thackrey. In a hotly phrased, 1,000-word, two-column blast, Editor Thackrey wrote with the air of a man asking himself: is this what I have been publishing...