Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another, he was upstairs at home asleep when the house of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was blown up (two men were blown to bits and the Roosevelt house next door was partly wrecked by the blast). Says James: "I remember it so well because Mother rushed home and gave me hell for being out of bed." Searching among the ruins of the Attorney General's house next morning, 12-year-old James found a human collar bone. He brought it home and put it on the table. "It almost spoiled the family's breakfast" he recalls...
...waiting trucks. One clumsy soldier let a case fall. With crash after crash that broke windows a mile away, the cases exploded. The trucks were left two tangles of twisted steel in a puddle of burning oil and blood. Fourteen men were killed instantly. Parts of the bodies were blown 200 feet away. Only four of the 14 could be identified. Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut promised a formal state funeral for the remains...
When the Falls View Bridge finally fell last week, it did not blow down like its predecessor or collapse-its piers were knocked out from under it. Ice, blown by gales out of Lake Erie and over the falls, piled up 90 ft. high in the river, ground into the bridge's unprotected piers set near water level. After 30 hours it simply pushed the base of the big 840-ft. arch at the U. S. end from its pier and the bridge fell. Useful chiefly for sightseeing, the collapse caused only a minor traffic problem between Niagara Falls...
...following streaks of oil floating on the long ocean swells, came upon what was left of the $320,000 Samoan Clipper 14 miles northwest of Pago Pago-a drawer, pieces of a coat, pages of the engineering log, part of the navigating desk, a pair of trousers. The debris, blown to bits, riddled with holes and imbedded with duralumin powder indicated a terrific mid-air explosion with instant death to all on board and immediate sinking of the ship's shattered hull in water a mile deep and alive with sharks. One was caught nearby a few days later...
...containers that glide through them at 30 m. p. h. are about the size of fire extinguishers. As there is no switching, every carrier pops out at each station, is retained or passed on according to its destination mark. Motive power in the tube is a current of air blown into the system from powerhouses en route. Each 120-lb. steel container holds up to 500 letters. Every day the system efficiently carries 6,000,000 of Manhattan's 20.000,000 pieces of mail...