Word: roaring
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Dies leaped up with a roar, took the floor in his committee's defense. Afterwards he collapsed, was carried off to the hospital. The cause: strain from overwork. For rewinding his burglar-alarm committee, Congress coughed up $150,000, the largest Dies Committee appropriation...
...lathe, of designing and building tools to make things with, a time of blueprints and bricks-without-mortar, of labor-training schools, of raw materials and schedules; a time of hurry, nerves, urgency, short cuts and of sharp demands for cooperation-or-else; 3) production: when more factories roar, more men go to work, more will be produced than ever before in the world's history-the goal, the answer to all physical problems, the time of get-out-of-the-way and here...
...molded into ingots, rolled and tortured into flat slabs, long, thin blooms. In strip mills, finishing plants, hot metal and cold metal was drawn and pressed into tubes, sheets and ropes of steel-the very sinews of war. Sound filled the cavernous mills: thunder of machinery, shriek of steam, roar of Diesel engines hauling flatcars, demon wails of overhead cranes...
...half time, with Cornhusker power matched by Indian guile, the score had seesawed to 14-13, in favor of the Indians. Then, in the third quarter, after Nebraska had staged a Samsonian goal-line stand, the stadium suddenly shook with a thunderous roar. With his teammates giving an incredible display of downfield blocking, Stanford's Pete Kmetovic, running back Nebraska's punt, scooted over the Nebraska goal line in a 40-yd. zigzag sprint-with all of the Cornhuskers flat on their faces behind him. The Nebraskans failed to score again. So the Indians stuck another feather...
Features of the new line include doorless telephone booths soundproofed to keep out the roar of trains, promenades in & out of the elaborate 34th Street station by which one can walk all the way to 42nd Street. Proud but not satisfied is the city's Board of Transportation. Included in plans for the far future : an East Side subway to replace the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevateds, a subway under Central Park, four new tunnels under the East River and one to Staten Island...