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...kitchen at Kenvil recently went a U. S. Government order for $2,000,000 worth of explosives, and an order from Britain. One dav last week, in a solvents recovery building, something went wrong with the brew. A small explosion made employes in the other 49 buildings take alarm. Flames shot from the windows of the recovery house. Before men could let go their held breath, 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder went up in a hell's delight of flame and thunder...
...screaming, blindly, through an eruption of debris and live steam. In company-owned houses outside the gates, their families were knocked off their feet, and window panes disintegrated. Passengers in a TWA stratoliner, 6,000 ft. up and 20 miles away, saw "huge pillars of white smoke ... a bright flame at the base." In towns 125 miles away people felt the shock...
...many enemy agencies to answer and confuse that question. One was the ally, Italy. Into Egypt from Libya drove the spearhead of what seemed to be a major Italian attack. Another was the fifth column, which was at work even in London. Across the city like a flame licked the rumor that the Germans had made a landing in Eire. The German radio helped, warning of an invasion on Sept. 16 which failed to materialize. Signor Mussolini's penpushers did their bit: onetime Fascist Party General Secretary Roberto Farinacci wrote that the invasion was off until next spring...
...centre, into which was pasted a flat core of guncotton and phosphorus. When dropped by night, the cards were slightly damp. When they dried out-it might take ten minutes or ten years, depending on where they fell-the reaction of oxygen on phosphorus made them burst into flame. This weapon, railed the Germans, was "obviously directed against the German youth, the German harvest. . . ." Officials complained that simple burghers picked the cards up as souvenirs of war, only to have them ignite in pockets and drawers; that children handled them and were brutally burned...
...spoiled because Mr. Finney sang the vocal himself. And so on. None of the music would have set Saratoga Springs on fire, but it probably would have pleased Katrina Trask, who used to say: "At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame...