Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, approached as near as duty permitted to the razed Navy Arsenal at Dover, N. J., where a few capricious shells were still frisking. Two investigations are under way: one to consider Government damages; one, civilian...
...weeks ago shattering explosions had prostrated their cottages, snorted through their gardens, shells from the lightning-struck U. S. arsenal mutilating kin, pigs, treasures. (TIME, July...
Over at the arsenal crawling soldiers and marines had squirmed through the charred ashes of leveled buildings, grasses, companions. Any moment a shell might explode, but most of the firing had ceased after 48 hours. Here a marine sifted, and as the grit drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers...
Lightning had hit the U. S. Arsenal at Lake Denmark, Government officials believe. The number of casualties was miraculously small, according to army officers. Most of the men injured were knocked down by the concussion of the explosions as the fragments of the fusillade hurtled over their heads...
...name of a statesman: Kremlin means the citadel of a town or city, more specifically the large Moscow inclosure' containing palaces, cathedrals, an arsenal; now the seat of the Soviet Government...