Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Neutrality Act was first passed] there would have been no difference between the export of cotton and the export of gun cotton. Today there is. Before 1935 there would have been no difference between the shipment of brass tubing in piece form and brass tubing in shell form. Today there...
...true that, hideous though local scenes were-a shell lighting on the crew of a pillbox, a riddled fighting plane screeching to its crash, a forest suddenly illuminated at night by roaring red dynamite, a man crawling back through the grass to an aid station-they were as nothing compared to what could & would take place when one side or other turned loose its full offensive power. When & where that offensive would come remained inscrutable at the end of the war's third week, but major stirrings and preparations, monstrous massing of men on both sides, boded cataclysm soon...
...Universal Pictures hit on the idea of warming over All Quiet on the Western Front for the peace trade. The picture was still as fresh as a raw amputation. High lights of horror were still two severed hands clutching the barbed wire, Lew Ayres stabbing a poilu in a shell hole, then trying to save him. But its conscientious producers tried to improve the masterpiece. Improvement No. 1: instead of opening with the mute, reproachful faces of dead soldiers, trooping past in an endless file of ghosts until they vanish in the sky, they began it with a historical newsreel...
...could have wished. Hard to spot were any restored cuts. The historical newsreel was a separate show. The strident commentator, harshly sounding off in the worst tradition of Russian soapbox films, demolished each of the picture's high-voltage, moving climaxes as efficiently as if a 12-inch shell had ripped through the screen...
...Efficient high-speed producers, like Chicago's Inland, Cleveland's Otis, Detroit's Great Lakes (division of National) were reported to be sold out at 100% of production until well into 1940. Syracuse's Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January 1, In the industry's tin plate division, which normally loafs after Labor Day, U. S. Steel's modern tin mill, Pittsburgh's huge Irvin works was so jammed that 63 old-fashioned handmills in Pennsylvania...