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...areas, dozens of roiling black spouts hopscotched across the countryside. It took just ten seconds for a twister to rip through a shopping center in Beaver Falls, Pa., tossing autos through plate glass windows as it went. "There was debris coming out of the top of the funnel," said Fireman Paul Gorby. "It was like a big runaway locomotive." The tornado peeled off the center's roof like a box top; rescue workers had to bring in a crane to lift fallen steel , girders that were pinning bodies below. Two people died and 30 were injured...
...Looking back now, most cuts were taken by the schools" to fit the new budget constraints, Macero said. "Fire and police were set, one extra kid in class doesn't impinge on public safety while one fireman less affects everybody," he added...
Residents of Yuba City quickly did so. Apples and oranges, they said. "I don't see how they can compare cities like Pittsburgh and Yuba City," commented Fireman Ron Ruzich. "It's just a way for someone to sell books somewhere." Part-time Mayor Chuck Pappageorge, a grain merchant, looked for a way to capitalize on the city's bottom-rung prominence. Said he: "If we'd been second to last, no one would have noticed. This is a great opportunity. We'll get some yardage out of this." Better hold that line, Pittsburgh...
...addition, ABC had a reported $8 million insurance policy with San Francisco's Fireman's Fund against a whole list of eventualities, including cancellation of the Games because of an earthquake and their interruption by an emergency presidential speech. The network even insured itself against low ratings, though neither ABC nor Fireman's Fund will disclose how much the audience has to dip before the policy starts paying...
...banking operations of the Geneva-based Trade Development Bank Holding in 1983 for about $550 million and paid more than $700 million earlier this year for Investors Diversified Services, a mutual fund and insurance firm with headquarters in Minneapolis. However, some of its acquisitions have proved troublesome. Profits from Fireman's Fund Insurance, which was purchased for nearly $500 million in 1968, fell 88% in 1983, to $30 million...