Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth-shaking thud of thousands of large feet goose-stepping at Nürnberg; gargantuan mass drills with shovels, guns, artillery, war planes, brass bands, dumbbells; a solemn annual service for dead Nazi martyrs-these the world hardly noticed, for everywhere people asked "War?" and tried to read the answer in the Nürnberg speeches of Big Nazis...
...shots of Mussolini, pose after pose of Hitler giving an almost epicene version of a Nazi salute, bike most articulate protestants against the way of the world, the makers of The Fight for Peace tell only what they want to tell, but their film hits home with a sickening thud. Some memorable scenes...
...each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh...
...Vermontash. The nine old councilors declare the election unconstitutional, and Eddie leaves town on a magic carpet, which he controls by a cantrip-"inflation" to go up, ''deflation" to come down. Eventually the carpet burns away from under him,* and he comes to earth with a thud, wakes to find himself in Hollywood, goggling at the passing stars...
...thud of broken skulls continued to be heard on U. S. city streets last week and country highways continued to resound with the crash of battered, torn and twisted metal. Removed during the week from the scene of automobile accidents in the U. S. were approximately 1,000 dead or dying persons. In Chicago, the National Safety Council was once more in convention to take stock of this appalling situation, consider what can be done, tell what is being done...