Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the night, the nitrate-laden Mapocho labored up the Chilean coast. The ship's bell tolled once-half-past midnight. Suddenly, explosions in the hold bounced the dinky, 63-year-old ship about. Flames burst above deck, firing lifeboats before they could be launched. The trapped crew and passengers scrambled for their lives. In half an hour the Mapocho went down, taking at least 83 people with...
...rate, bankrolls will begin to accumulate under the outlawing, and Crimson pinsters will have to seek the flashing light and clanging bell elsewhere...
Developed by the Army Air Technical Service and the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the specially reeled wire, with a weighted parachute attached at the starting point, snakes out of coils in the plane at 250 ft. a second. The Tennessee-North Carolina line was turned over to the National Park Rangers, served for five weeks until a sleet storm sheathed the wire with ice and caused a break. By & large, wire-laying by plane is useful only in emergency: flood, earthquake...
Died. Alexander Granach, 54, Polish-born stage & screen actor (A Bell for Adano, The Seventh Cross), pre-Hitler German star; following an emergency appendectomy; in Manhattan. He once played the title role in Yiddish in the pioneer anti-Nazi play, Professor Mam-lock, for 300 performances in Poland...
...Armored Division and 104th Infantry ("Timberwolves") moved in, a church bell rang crazily, not in joy but high and loose-lipped like the laughter of a hysterical woman. A mud-stained veteran stared with dazed eyes at the desolation about him murmuring over and over, "Ain't it awful! Ain't it awful!" Silent Rubble. In most districts not one street was untouched, not a single house undamaged. The outer areas of the city were 85% destroyed, the center 95% rubble. TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who went in with the first troops, cabled: "The first impression was that...