Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test will also give the city an opportunity to test its new siren signals: a steady three-minute blast for "alert," whooping or quick short blasts for "take cover," and another three-minute blast for "evacuation...
Civil Defense officials say that the basis for the change in policy, from taking shelter to complete evacuation, is the new estimated casualty figures for cities filled with people if a nuclear attack occurs. They point out that blast effects of the bombs and contamination would make emptying of target area mandatory...
Though processing low-grade ore costs up to $30 per ton, the even quality of the pellets hikes blast-furnace output as much as 20%, and produces better pig iron. An even bigger advantage of low-grade iron ore is its large supply. Only five years ago steelmen were predicting that some of the nation's high-grade ore deposits would be mined out by 1970. By using its low-grade ore, the U.S. should have plenty of ore for another several hundred years...
...fighter bomber-to crack the sound barrier in level flight, broke the official world's record by flying 822 m.p.h. last year. Even then it was under wraps; estimates are that it can top 1,000 m.p.h. with its Pratt & Whitney J57 engine and afterburner going full blast. The F-100 can fly and fight effectively at 50,000 ft. (10,000 ft. higher than the F-86), and packs an array of 2.75-in. rockets and radar-sighted 20-mm. cannon which fire so fast a burst sounds like the high toot of a diesel locomotive. Cost...
McCarthy's blast yesterday was the second since the acquittal ruling. He called for the Judge's impeachment...