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...crisis was well illustrated by what had happened in the tiny town of Rosemount, near Minneapolis. There, in the expanding days of 1942, the 21,000-acre Gopher Ordnance Works-a typical example of the cornfield-to-factory projects which sprang up all over the U.S.-was built to manufacture powder...
...crisis was well illustrated by what had happened in the tiny town of Rosemont, near Minneapolis. There, in the expanding days of 1942, the 21,000-acre Gopher Ordnance Works-a typical example of the cornfield-to-factory projects which sprang up all over the U.S.-was built to manufacture powder. Then, for almost two years, the plant stood idle; and finally, last February, workmen began to dismantle its machinery...
Garner's hands were stained black. He leaned forward slightly, favoring his left ear, talking fast. "Got my hands like this hulling pecans yesterday. Today I've been in the cornfield since early morning-I took the 'down row'-had to bend down, following the wagon. I wish we had time to strike a blow for Liberty, Harry...
...greatest show on earth" (according to informed critics who have seen it) is now in the 20th month of an amazing run. Scene of the show is a Mexican plateau near the Pacific, 200 miles west of Mexico City. Paricutin, the new volcano which erupted from a cornfield, has grown to a mountain some 1,500 feet high and shows no signs of weakening. Natives call it El Monstruo. Belching 2,700 tons of fiery rock a minute, the crater has over-awed hundreds of tourists. At its more spectacular moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching...
...Dionisio Pulido, plowing his cornfield, suddenly felt the ground rumble and saw a great column of white smoke burst from the ground. He ran to the priest in the village of Paricutin, two miles away. By the time priest and villagers arrived, the crater was belching molten rock and lava. In a week it had raised a cone 500 feet high; in ten weeks, 1,000 feet. Then lava, erupting from the crater's top and sides, began to ooze over the countryside...