Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explosive mixture-ammonium nitrate and oil) that he was to deliver to customers at dawn. About 1 a.m.. back in his hotel, he heard fire engines roar by, ran toward his truck. He still had half a block to go and a corner to turn when a blockbusting blast smashed him against the ground. Clocks all over Roseburg (pop. 12,200) stopped with hands pointing...
...parked his death-laden truck. Assistant Fire Chief Roy McFarlane thought he had things under control, sent one fireman to the hospital with burned hands. City Patrolman Don DeSues, 32, took over traffic direction at the nearest corner. Suddenly, George Rutherford's truck went off with a blast bigger than a World War II blockbuster, dug a 50-ft.-wide crater 20 ft. deep, pulverized six blocks of business buildings, transients' apartments and homes, smashed the windows and badly damaged a 23-block area, knocked people out of bed for eight miles around...
Minutes after the blast, Roseburg began to rally. From the Rumblebees Motorcycle Club to the National Guard, volunteer forces backed up police and firemen, sealed off the 23-block danger area, hauled the 52 injury cases to hospitals, kept out looters. Damage estimates ran to $12 million, but the count on the dead was harder to come by. The coroner's deputies accounted for twelve bodies, then sent off for lab tests samples of lighter ashes that might be eight or more transients in transient apartments. Five blocks from the crater lay a bent axle, the biggest piece left...
...heating up fast enough. Giant Manager Bill Rigney makes no bones about who is going to win: "My young bulls have the taste of first place, and they like it. We're going to win the pennant." The Dodger fans' answer: a rootin'-tootin' cavalry blast on dozens of trumpets carried into the ballpark, followed by a full-throated bellow from the stands: "CHARGE...
...from primitive production methods, an overburdened transportation system, and an anarchic planning system that put untrained workers on industrial machines and knowledgeable technicians in mines or paddies. A classic example of chaos was Peking's 1958 decision to encourage hundreds of thousands of peasants to set up tiny blast furnaces in their backyards to raise steel production. The system proved so uneconomic that it has been abandoned, after millions were spent on backyard plants...