Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first quarter of the auto model year, a time when auto manufacturers justifiably overproduce in order to stock dealers. Overproduction of 200,000 cars would average less than five cars apiece for each of U. S.'s 41,698 dealers. Beginning of autumn, production ran at full blast. Last week it assembled 117,805 cars (against 102,905 last year). But Chrysler Corp., after its 54-day strike, has still to fill accumulated orders and stock its dealers. This may help sustain auto assemblies, regardless of January-April retail auto sales-and auto assemblies count 5.4% in the Federal...
...first number Twice A Year published 34 pages of moderately pithy pontification by Alfred Stieglitz; a gustier and guttier five-page blast on aesthetics by e. e. cummings; some subtle war-time letters (1914-19) of the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; excerpts from Andre Malraux and Franz Kafka among others; the studied, furious oration in which individualist Henry David Thoreau in 1859 defended individualist John Brown. Its "Civil Liberties Section" contained Roger Baldwin's On Being a Conscientious Objector (1918-1913)-plus the judge's decision that in 1918 sent Baldwin to jail...
Here is the last 100% correct blast from Hu Flung Huey Jr. He wanted to pick four southern teams but the Midwest was his first love...
...side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan consumers...
Never faltering before the New York blast, the Crimson rallied to net the winning shots in the last four minutes of play. Dave Eaton led off at 16:40 by taking a pass from Prenie Willetts and sinking the rubber from a difficult angle...