Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he was confined to a Reno hospital bed last week, Nevada's blustering Senator Pat McCarran still managed -somewhat like the Queen Elizabeth whistling in drydock-to issue a blast at the State Department. At first glance, it seemed fairly routine: the Senator noted with alarm that 18 leftist U.S. labor leaders got visas for England, France and Italy last spring and then went blithely on to Moscow, took part in the Reds' May Day ceremonies and issued anti-American propaganda...
...Airport. Aboard the crowded war-surplus craft: four crewmen, 52 passengers, bound for Tampa at nonscheduled Miami Airline's bargain rates ($39.74 for grownups, half fare for children). The heavily loaded Commando gathered speed, got her tail up. Black smoke plumed from her, and swirled in the propeller blast...
...owes $51 million. Kaiser has little trouble getting money from private sources. He has recently arranged for: i) a $17,-500,000 preferred-stock issue to finance the rest of his new aluminum plant, and 2) $65 million in new private financing to add a third blast furnace, a ninth open-hearth furnace and 90 new coke ovens to his Fontana steel works in California...
President Colgate W. Darden Jr. of the University of Virginia fired a resounding blast last week against an old U.S. ideal. "In our enthusiasm for mass education," said Darden, "we have overdone it. By keeping inferior students in high school, we have watered down the educational job we could do for good students . . . We imposed on the teaching profession a grand and glorified day nursery. They are not running scholarly institutions." Darden's recommendation: "Return to public education as Jefferson saw it... Teach every child to read and write. After that ... we must leave public education open...
...testing atomic weapons, the AEC often spots instruments close to the center of the blast. Information coming back from them must be recorded and evaluated before the instruments evaporate in the fierce heat of the explosion. To get the results in time's atomic nick, the engineers have already begun to measure in two ten-billionths of a second...