Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frazer started his dizzy fiscal feat with the Warren City Tank & Boiler Co., Warren, Ohio (pop. 43,000). The company's $7,000.000 plant was built by the Navy but, under private management, was falling down on the job of making landing barges, etc. So Joe Frazer, fresh from doing a bang-up production job at Willys-Overland Motors Inc., took over...
...train-busting. The Syszmanski technique: "I come in from the back of a train, aiming at the third car from the engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only claim them as damaged...
...hours behind schedule, the train chuffed out. Soon the second engine developed mechanical trouble. Water in the boiler ran low. The engineer suggested that there was a water pump at Malines, 13 miles away. He knew, but the Germans did not, that the Malines pump was out of order...
...between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there; the true story of Josh Billings, the famed humorist, who died in Monterey and whose insides, removed by a local undertaker, got carelessly scattered around town...
Engineer Frank Blair died from burns-he had landed safely after his leap, only to be scalded by the bursting boiler. Twenty-eight other men, 26 of them soldiers, also died, and 40 were taken to hospitals. As next morning's sunlight cleared the fog, thousands of people gathered near the tracks, and a man with a tinkling bell on his automobile sold hundreds of Popsicles. Major W. J. Wegg, who had commanded the Air Forces group on the train, went to the Terre Haute House and wearily ordered a bottle of Budweiser. As he lifted it he said...