Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly every major meeting the dealers attend finds Sullivan on hand with a load of entertainers. To further the cause of Lincoln-Mercury, Ed has addressed steelworkers before their blast furnaces in Pittsburgh, landed on Boston Common in a helicopter, gone down 20 ft. in a Navy diving suit and sailed up the Mississippi in a barge before 75,000 spectators at the opening of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. His identification with his sponsor is so strong that any Lincoln or Mercury buyer who is dissatisfied with his car is apt to drop Ed a complaining line. (Within ten days...
...medical team from the Naval Medical Research Institute and the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory reported on the radioactive fallout that occurred over the Marshall Islands area in the spring of 1954 following a thermonuclear-bomb test explosion. Findings: 1) the blast apparently did no permanent damage to Marshallese; 2) skin lesions and loss of hair developed in 90% of the group two weeks after exposure, but both conditions disappeared quickly...
...about an hour and a half last night, the pair of suave talkers went from one freshman dormitory to another, telling the students that they were representing a "Senior Welcoming. Committee for Freshmen." They told them that this group was planning to throw "a giant blast," the night of Oct. 15, which all students, coaches, and faculty "would attend." The site of this projected party was the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel...
Your story on Herman Wouk and his blast against the irresponsibility of the intellectual could well be pointed up by Thomas Molnar's analysis of the rejection by the masses of the intellectual [Sept. 5]. Wouk's espousal of the family unit as a stabilizing force, and his recognition of man as primarily a creature of God, is in contrast to what Molnar calls the "rootlessness" of the intellectual. The American public may be uncultured, but they know the basic facts of life...
...biggest U.S. steelmaker (after U.S. Steel and Bethlehem) and top producer of alloy and stainless steel. Republic specializes in the light "growth" steels which go into industry's mushrooming output of autos. kitchen appliances, air conditioners, etc. Largely as a result of specialization, technical advances, e.g., high-pressure blast furnace blowing and strategic location of its eleven steel mills and 30 fabricating plants, Republic has made money steadily over a 2O-year period. With its new facilities, Republic will have more than twice the capacity it had when the company was organized...