Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through Fridays. Unpublicized for two years, it began to get astonished reviews last month. Fortnight ago Variety, which is not girlish, called one day's episode "one of the most distinguished and stirring broadcasts in the history of commercial daytime radio." That broadcast succeeded in getting across the impact on a girl refugee of Manhattan's skyscraper wall looming out of a winter morning fog. Best bit: part of the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: . . . Give me your tired, your poor...
When John Calhoun became Secretary of War, Shreve got his chance. While jeering onlookers hooted, the snag boat "drove head on at a massive 'planter' (half submerged tree). There was a booming impact and crash. It seemed to the onlookers that the boat must be shattered to pieces. But there it was, still intact, and the huge tree toppling into the water. A spontaneous cheer went up. . . ." "By the end of 1830, the age-old drowned forests had vanished from the Mississippi...
Alban Berg, Schoenberg's greatest disciple, composed a Violin Concerto just before his death. This magnificent piece of music is superior to Pierrot Lunaire chiefly because any architectonically-built composition surpasses a chain of short movements, but apart from that it possesses an immediacy of appeal and an emotional impact almost unequalled in any other modern work. Suite Lyrique, for string quartet, was for a long while the only thing of Berg's available on records. And it affected most listeners as a piece of sheer gibberish, a composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured...
World War II is introducing X-rays into U.S. industry with the same momentous impact with which World War I introduced them into every hospital and doctor's office. Today X-rays are looking for flaws in parts of airplanes, tanks, warships and cannon as systematically as they are used to examine the lungs of new Army recruits...
...this neat scheme all nosegays go to big, fast-moving, hard-punching Lewis Rosenstiel, tsar of the U.S. liquor industry, boss of No. 1 U.S. rectifier Schenley Distillers. In late 1938, dead-sure war was coming, Rosenstiel began bulwarking his company against war's impact. He pow-wowed with all his executives, warned them hard times were on the way. Then he started barking orders like an Army sergeant, did not stop until he was sure Schenley was as shortage-proof as Rosenstiel could make...