Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomber gored through the thick steel and stone of the building as if they were papier-mâché. Then, in a flash of flame, the gasoline tanks exploded. In another instant flames leaped and seeped inside & outside the building...
Bright fire gushed from the 18-ft. wound in the structure's side, reached for the topmost observation tower on the 102nd floor. Gasoline fumes popped in flash explosions four and five floors below. Thick, acrid smoke billowed above & below, soon filled the upper floors...
Steel to the Mills. From nine 16-in. rifles on each of the three battleships came a blinding flash, a deafening roar, an earthquake-like concussion; 2,100-lb. shells rained into the Imperial Iron & Steel Works in Kamaishi (prewar...
Careful to speak before the House, so that he could not be sued for libel, Democrat Boren charged: "Two men . . . are the chief instigators of 'Swindle, Inc.' The [foremost] is a Wall Street financial agent, one Guy C. Myers, known as 'Flash' Myers to his friends back in Montana before he made a hurried exit from that state. . . . His opposite number among the holding company gang is Howard L. Aller, president of American Power & Light...
...Committee set the pattern for 'Swindle, Inc.' Aller's company received three times the rightful price. . . . Aller and his pal, Flash, are cooking up even more ambitious deals ... in Seattle, Portland, Ore., Spokane. . . . Louisville [is] listed on the bankers' books. Some of the blue chip banking outfits of the country are involved: Blyth & Co., Nuveen & Co., First Boston, Dillon, Read and others...