Word: amboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sound Effects. In Perth Amboy, N.J., police raced to an apartment house to find out why half a dozen tenants' doorbells were all ringing at once, found a young man kissing his girl friend goodnight as she leaned against the bell buttons...
Across South Amboy windows burst into hurling, razorlike shards. Plaster crashed down from ceilings, doors blew in, walls bulged. The lights went out. All over town, the clocks stopped at 7:26. River mud, coal and metal fragments hurtled down from the sky. From the docks a huge mushroom cloud rose grey-white and languid...
Panic swept South Amboy. "Atom bomb," someone yelled and began running. Said a townsman later: "I saw that big pile of smoke just like in the newsreels and I said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...
Pallid Flags. Nearly every house and building in South Amboy was damaged. Regular troops from nearby Fort Monmouth were rushed in, took up guard over the blasted banks and the post office. In Perth Amboy, two miles across the estuary, hundreds were cut by shattering glass and a chunk of steel buried itself in a downtown sidewalk. By midnight, South Amboy swarmed with ambulances and fire engines. Some 350 people were injured, 57 of them hospitalized. Others patched their own cuts, tramped the streets peering at wrecked stores, excitedly comparing notes. Through the town's shattered windows, white curtains...
...South Amboy was bitter. Only six weeks before, Mayor Leonard had written to Washington protesting further shipment of explosives through his port. Two weeks before, the Coast Guard had ordered munitions shipments at South Amboy limited to a modest 500 pounds a load, had allowed this big shipment only because of previous agreements. Said Mayor Leonard: "This was supposed to be the last...