Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improvements, thereby extending original patents far beyond their 17-year limits. Before Arnold could bring his heavy guns to bear, he was upped to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Many a U.S. businessman relaxed. But from his new vantage point, Justice Arnold last week shook them with another howitzer blast...
...been: How will the U.S. dispose of its more than $15,000,000,000 worth of Federally owned war plants? Last week, Bethlehem Steel Corp. took action to banish its own bugaboo, by purchasing all Government-built steelmaking facilities on Bethlehem property. These were mainly coke ovens and blast furnaces at Lackawanna, Bethlehem, Steelton and Sparrows Point. Shipbuilding facilities were not included...
...estimate that some war plants might be worth as little as 25% of cost to private industry, because of sky-high wartime construction prices and reconversion costs. But the Bethlehem purchase will set no real price precedent. There will be little, if any, reconversion cost for coke ovens and blast furnaces. As Bethlehem's President Eugene G. Grace explained the purchase: "We like to be our own landlord...
...recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...
...mouthpiece was wrong. From Moscow came a cold, hard blast like a winter wind across the steppes. Said Moscow to the Poles: 1) the Poles have rejected the Curzon Line; 2) the Poles forget that they have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., hence cannot negotiate; 3) the lack of relations is the fault of the Poles who joined the Germans in an anti-Soviet slander about the murder of Polish officers in Katyn Forest (TIME, April 26); 4) the present Polish Government clearly does not want to establish good relations with Russia. In effect, said Moscow...