Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cigar-Shaped Peril. In the Pacific last March, the hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll sent a shower of deadly radioactive dust (mostly pulverized coral) over a vast cigar-shaped area extending 220 miles downwind from the blast. Along a strip up to 20 miles wide, extending 140 miles downwind, the fall-out-if it had come down in a populated area-would have seriously threatened the lives of nearly every human. At a distance of 160 miles the lives of half the people would be threatened; at 190 miles 5% to 10% might die (varying with individual reaction...
...there could be long-range effects harder to guard against. One substance found in nuclear fallout is strontium-go, which, when taken into the body in dangerous amounts, causes deterioration of the bones. Its effects could reach people years after the blast, if it fell on soil where food later was grown for animals used for milk or meat...
When the Government began a criminal antitrust suit against the Kansas City Star Co.. President Roy Roberts called the indictment a "shotgun" blast. Last week, in Kansas City's U.S. District Court', President Roberts, 67, got a chance to fire back. He was the chief defense witness against Government charges that the Star and its morning edition, the Times, used their monopoly position to kill competition and keep their own circulation and ad rates high (TIME, Feb. 14). On the witness stand Roberts testified that the papers' success was the result of "efficient management," not monopoly...
...Rome's Church of Saint Eugenius. "Where's Bristol?" Fazzini angrily demanded. "To know who I am all you have to do is open any art publication or see who won the first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol, Fazzini's blast got a homespun retort. Editorialized the Bristol Herald Courier: "He said he didn't know where Bristol is after he learned us 'hillbillies' in this 'mountain-locked community' reckoned his divine piece of Small Boy and Fawn wasn't worth the asking price...
...Blast furnaces glowed and roared in the steel centers of Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Chicago last week as the steel industry jacked its operating rate to 88.2%, the eighth consecutive weekly boost. According to this key barometer of the economy, the outlook has seldom been better. Last week's scheduled output of 2,129,000 tons was the best in two years, within striking distance of the alltime high of 2,324,000 set the week of March 23. 1953. With order backlogs soaring, the trade magazine Iron Age said: "If the rate of incoming business holds, raw steel output...