Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metric tons of hard coal, an increase of 10% over 1951 but still nowhere near enough to maintain exports and feed its blast furnaces, which still rely on expensive U.S. coking coal...
...make the monthly interest payments. Yet it was German hard work that overnight turned revival into boom. German heavy workers, with the approval of their trade unions, put in up to 54 hours a week for an average wage of $18 to $22. Many Ruhr factories keep going full blast on Saturdays and Sundays; their employees are often...
Down the runway they sped, Felix and the Constellation. The blast from the right inboard engine whipped his tattered shirt, but Felix only curled his bare toes tighter around the housing. Spectators at the terminal building spotted the figure behind the strut, and gestured in mute horror as the plane sped by. Joseph Hernandez, the flight steward, caught the meaning of their signals just in time to see the big double wheel leave the ground, with Felix still clinging tight, and fold forward into the wing...
Churchill continued: "Thousands of tons of mud and rock from the sea bottom were thrown many thousands of feet into the air, and a high tidal wave was caused. The effects of the blast and radioactive contamination extended over a wide area. H.M.S. Plym was vaporized except for some red-hot fragments which were scattered over one of the islands and started fires in the dry vegetation...
...swung into Arcady Dubensky's energetic Fugue for Eighteen Violins. The trouble was that the whole percussion section, which had no part in the violin piece, began playing the next piece on its music racks-Khacha-turian's Symphony No. 2-which opens with a crashing, jangling blast. "We raised the roof," says Goodman. "The plaster fell." Stokowski allowed them to hammer away happily for eight whole bars before they skidded to a stop. It has never happened again...