Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past year, Canadian politicians have protested loudly about U.S. wheat exports, angrily claiming that U.S. "giveaways" and bargain-price wheat deals were ruining Canada's foreign markets. Last week Canadians found themselves on the receiving end of a similar blast. New Zealand filed an official protest in Ottawa against the dumping of low-priced Canadian butter in Europe, where it is underselling New Zealand butter...
Some Western scientists reckoned that the Russian explosion took place in Eastern Siberia or in the Gobi desert. British scientists guessed that its intensity was in the neighborhood of 15 megatons (the most recent U.S. blast at Bikini is usually estimated at between ten and 20 megatons). Excited newspaper headlines (and some discreet Communist prodding) led fainthearts and opposition parties in most of the affected nations to demand an immediate stop to all atomic tests everywhere. Yet even in France, where the wails were loudest, the most intense concentration of radioactivity was ar below the top level that human beings...
Last week Mrs. Ann Woodward left the Manhattan hospital where she had been a patient for three weeks, since the night when she killed her husband, Millionaire Sportsman William Woodward Jr., with a blast from a shotgun (TIME, Nov. 7). The widow was no longer a dazzling glamour girl: shock and grief had visibly aged her, and she was in a state of near-collapse. Her first stop after leaving the hospital was police headquarters at Mineola, N.Y. There Ann Woodward repeated her story that she had killed her husband in the dark under the impression that...
...Stalin's Steps. One day after the congress adjourned, Mao loosed his 13,-ooo-word blast before party leaders. The industrializing of the country, he said, depends on growing farm surpluses, which can only be produced by larger and more efficient cooperatives. If the future of Chinese Communism is to be saved, said Mao, "we must mount our horses quickly" and charge off to the left along the trail so boldly blazed by the Russians. The Central Committee had decided that no more than a million collectives should be formed by next fall. "That is not enough," snapped...
Pittsburgh blast furnaces poured ingots at nearly 104% of rated capacity and Buffalo mills pushed production of steel to almost 105% of capacity...