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Then the flame suddenly spurted upward with nightmare swiftness, and billowed silently across the whole top of the tent near the main entrance. The bleachers suddenly rumbled under thousands of feet; folding chairs clattered and banged. The crowd struggled to reach the ground, flowed wildly toward the exits, clotted into groups which pushed and elbowed with silent, furious concentration in the furnace-like heat. Men & women in the high bleacher seats began dropping children to the ground, then jumped themselves. Then great blazing patches of canvas fell. Women screamed as their hair and dresses caught fire. Then a tent pole...
...aluminum from France until war interfered, has since been a reluctant Alcoa customer. Last week, having arranged to get bauxite from Dutch Guiana, Reynolds got approval of a $15,800,000 RFC loan to build ingot smelters, probably in Alabama. Ingot smelters consume electricity the way a St. Louis bleacher crowd uses pop on a hot day. Like Alcoa's own main furnaces, for which Franklin Roosevelt signed a $68,500,000 TVA expansion bill last week, Reynolds will get its electricity from TVA. Reynolds Metals called its project "our contribution to national defense," claimed to be aiming...
...Senator to take the floor." Boo! The Senator reached the microphone, white and shaken. "Fellow Democrats," he be gan,"I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning. ..." Nothing was plain after that; through the surging roar of catcalls and the stamping of feet, whistles and bleacher wit, disjointed phrases echoed out of the loudspeakers: I thought democracy had returned to Louisiana...
Eager to see Stagehand, No. i money winner of 1938, repeat his performance of the fortnight before, when he snatched the McLennan Handicap from Warren Wright's promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer...
...bleacher fan at a big league ball game pays his money and scourges the Umpire to his heart's content. The violent element in these capacity crowds which tax the New Gym for league games seems to have adopted the philosophy of the bleachers. Their noisy up braidings might be expected from the bottle throwing second gallery gods at a professional hockey game, but not from sensible spectators at a college athletic event. In the future those addicted to unjustified yowling might at least pretend that they have come...