Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attorney General Brownell had ignored the rumors and judicial ad libs, but Fritchey's double diversion provoked a blast of devastating statements from his department...
...Private industry has signed up for $29 billion in plant expansion, and has completed about two-thirds of the total. The job has been done so well that Chief Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming will issue no further tax write-offs for 120 of the 237 defense categories. Among them: blast furnaces, brass mills, metal cans, magnesium, oil wells, paper, rubber, optical glass. Furthermore, Flemming has suspended fast tax write-offs for another 49 categories, including military aircraft, electric power and machine tools, while he takes a second look. The belief is that the U.S. may have enough capacity in those...
Through his 39 years of earthly reign Father Divine has hurled many a curse at the conspicuously unbelieving.* Last week he leveled his biggest blast in years. The main target: Sociologist Sara Harris, 34, whose recent book, Father Divine: Holy Husband (Doubleday: $3.95), is a sprightly study of Father and his cult...
...record and flew into a rage. The learned press, said he, is "languishing in a lazy obscurity, and barely reminding us of its existence, by now and then slowly bringing forth a Program, a Sermon printed by request, or at best a Bodleian Catalogue." Sir William's blast had its effect. The world has rarely since had to be reminded of the existence of the Press, which today is the world's most prodigious book publisher...
Later, under Dr. John Fell,* it started its paper mill, began buying type from Holland, was "furnisht with Arabick, Hebrew, Greek, Latin & English matrices, as also letters in the Aforesaid languages." Finally, after the slump that brought on Blackstone's blast, the Press slowly began to achieve its present size and shape...