Word: slag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Brat." Bevan was born 51 years ago in the Welsh hills which are slag-pocked and crumpled like a tattered old flannel blanket. The names of his brothers & sisters sounded like a Celtic fairy tale-Blodwyn, Myfanwy, Arianwen, lorwerth. There was nothing romantic about the Bevans' tiny four-room house with its sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets...
Passers-by saw girls screaming at top-floor windows; then blasts of fire blotted them from sight. Moments later some of the same figures could be seen again, burned to blackened skeletons. The heat melted stonework to limy slag. In all, the destruction lasted just 16 minutes. Firemen counted 41 dead, none positively identifiable, in the worst fire disaster in Dominion history. Two days later, when New Zealand put out flags to celebrate the royal wedding, Christchurch flags flew at halfmast...
...material costs rising and revenues dropping since V-J day, railroads have been struggling to keep their heads above water. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission threw them a lifesaver: a 6% increase in freight rates, effective July 1-except for certain basic commodities such as products of agriculture, slag, gravel, etc. on which the boost was only 3%. To make up for their lower rate of earnings, Eastern railroads were allowed a further increase of 5% on all but anthracite and bituminous coal, lignite and iron...
...Technical Sergeant Levine did clerical work in one of the loneliest spots in the world, an Army base on Ascension Island in mid-Atlantic. On the side he painted a Crucifixion for the Catholic chapel. Says he: "The boys needed something to look at on that pile of slag...
Mahler had few good words for his contemporaries. Of Puccini he said (after a performance of Tosca): "Nowadays any bungler orchestrates to perfection"; of Sibelius: "The most hackneyed clichés were served up with harmonizations in the 'Nordic' style"; and of Strauss: "A heap of slag...