Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long a cold wind hurled grey clouds out of the Northwest and across the bleak Atomic Proving Grounds in Nevada. The Atomic Energy Commission, well aware of public concern about radioactive fallout (TIME, Feb. 28), kept on postponing the big blast. But at 5:45 one morning, it touched off a small...
Newsmen huddled on cold (10°), windy (40 m.p.h.) Mt. Charleston, nearly 50 miles away, muttered with frustration. The blast was a disappointment: the sky lit up with a dull red glow for a second; the mushroom cloud was hidden in the dark overcast; the sound bounced over Mt. Charleston completely...
...less jaded observers the explosion had authority. Small though it was, the blast lit up predawn Los Angeles 250 air miles away. It rattled through Las Vegas, Nev. 75 miles away, rumbled on through St. George, Utah 135 miles to the East, and sounded like distant war drums in Cedar City, Utah 175 miles from the blast. Some in Los Angeles claimed to hear the distant drums 20 minutes after the flash...
...thinking men had called in experts, held hearings, discussed at length, and had reached a "hopeless impasse." A clear majority wholeheartedly agreed that it was a very bad bill, but they just could not figure out how to amend it. A motion on the floor of the house to "blast" the bill out of committee and place it before the whole membership failed by one vote. The Craig forces were winning the fight by suffocation...
...Since most of Jackson's leading businessmen own stock, the State Times had no trouble filling its first issue with ads. But the opposition Clarion-Ledger (circ. 47,269) and Daily News (41,324) will offer stiff competition. Said a Clarion-Ledger editorial last week in an angry blast aimed at the new daily: "No business founded on hatred, envy, malice . . . can long survive...