Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven directors were in prison, convicted of war crimes. In Essen, a bomb-strewn jungle of twisted steel and rubble covered the site of the mighty steel plant, bristling with naked chimneys, that had once been Krupp's throbbing heart and muscle. Across Germany, Krupp's vast holdings were rapidly being dismantled and shipped off by the Allies, determined to stamp out "the merchants of death" who in two world wars supplied the cannon used by the long German columns to blast their way across Europe...
...giving the Krupps the privilege henceforth to name one successor as the sole owner of the empire. He would arrange substantial allowances for the rest of the family, among whom stock had previously been split. Gustav stepped down, and Alfried, a sensitive, retiring young man. became ruler of the vast Krupp holdings. For the rest of the war, he left most of the company's operations in the hands of its directors...
...small powers-Albania and Egypt -started the last of all wars, but the big powers finished it. A-bombs H-bombs, massive cobalt bombs obliterated the industrial cities of East and West. The winds carried radioactive dust to hamlet and farm, from Scandinavian fiord to Pacific island. A vast silence fell over the Northern Hemisphere. And now the dust is coming south, covering the earth as uniformly as a bandage wrapped with slow deliberation around an orange. Scientists estimate that it will take about nine months to envelop the Southern Hemisphere from the equator to the pole. Then the earth...
...fast (Echoes of Spain, Music for the Nostalgic Traveler). So are such special items as Music for Baby Sitters and Music to Break a Lease. There are mood albums, the record companies boast, for every member of the family and for almost every household activity. Still, the possibilities remain vast. Not yet in the catalogue: Music for Boozing and Music to Soothe Your Hangover, Music to Shave By (so far, the bathroom has scarcely been tapped), Music for the Analyst's Couch, Music to Beat Your Wife By and Music to Spoil Your Taste for Music...
SKYWAY TRAFFIC JAM will be eased under new CAB plan to prevent armed forces from declaring vast areas of sky off-limits to any but military flights, thus crowding commercial planes into narrower lanes and causing costly flight delays. Board figures alloting more space for commercial flights will also create wider, safer buffer space between military and civilian areas...