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...south, dark cumulus clouds reared their anvil-shaped heads into a leaden overcast. The flatlands sweltered as the temperature climbed to 90°. Aloft, cool winds raced down from the northern Rockies, rode over the blanketing heat. The black, moisture-laden thunderheads ballooned, formed a storm line which writhed eastward toward the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Suddenly, swirling like water draining from some giant bathtub, the tornadoes spun out of the clouds and swept across the land...
Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
INTERIOR Secretary McKay, worried over charges that he opposes the development of natural resources, will soon announce support for two gigantic power and irrigation projects for the West. One is the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay...
...there sold with 48 other Negroes, many from his own tribe, to a Señor Ruiz. Ruiz loaded his human goods aboard a schooner named Amistad (Friendship), Captain Ferrer commanding; later a Señor Montes took passage. On June 27, 1839, the schooner weighed anchor and headed eastward along the coast of Cuba...
...likely to be a renewed proposal for a united and disarmed Germany, open for trade with the Communist East. A lot of Germans, and especially Adenauer's Socialist opposition, may fall for such a program. It would attract British traders, who would like to deflect German commercial competition eastward. It would be even more enticing to many French, distrustful of a rearmed Germany...