Word: counterblasting
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...Board Chairman Edward L. Ryerson was fed up. He thought that there were too many politicians in Washington trying to blame the steel industry for the steel shortage. Last week at a meeting in Chicago of the American Society for Metals, Ryerson let go with a counterblast of his own: "For anyone to suggest that the steel industry should arbitrarily be required to increase its capacity by 20 to 30 million tons during the next two years ... is to suggest a program ... so unrealistic that it is sheer nonsense . . . Our industry is an early target of an obvious campaign that...
Throughout them Forster contrasts the simple instincts of people with the taboos and sophistries of social custom. In The Machine Stops-written as "a counterblast to one of the heavens of H. G. Wells"-he describes a world of push-button perfection in which men have lost their souls. Says one inhabitant of this Utopia under the surface of the earth: "Those funny old days, when men went for a change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!" But when another character gets a brief look at the earth's surface, with all its imperfections...
Part of the British press met the U.S. State Department's recent blast against Argentina (TIME, Aug. 7) with a counterblast. Wrote the London Daily Mail's Alastair Forbes last week: "Argentina has found herself in the same state as a small Chicago shopkeeper of the old days who refused to pay 'protection' to the local gang." He predicted that bullying the Argentine military Government would only increase its popularity, that sanctions against Argentina would damage the Allies...
...Counterblast. To this kind of talk, Teachers College Dean William Fletcher Russell has been giving angry rebuttals before educators' gatherings. Russell favors helping devastated lands rebuild their school systems, but he would send pencils and blank paper rather than lessons written by the winners. Says...
...same, the trial was neither a mock trial nor a failure. As a counterblast against Axis propaganda, it was an opening gun in the War of the America's (see p. 12). As a revelation of Nazi methods, it was worth any amount of money in Latin America, where a branch of Transocean is still active...