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...Weehawken, N. J., John Moyer, Negro, went into a workmen's outhouse, lit a cigaret, dropped the match down the sewer. Benzine in the sewer exploded,, leaped out and seared John Moyer, ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer...
...bound. Turning down the coast past Scituate, Mass., she quickened her pace. Just at dusk her 76 passengers, including Vice President D. R. McNeil of the company, and the crew of 80, felt her swerve, stagger. Rushing on deck they saw a horrifying fiery geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew...
...were warmed up. Miss England II was doing more than 101 m. p. h. on her third run when she swerved suddenly. The whole side of the thin white flying shell seemed to give way. While the roar of the engines still echoed across the lake, a column of flame, smoke, foam, water shot up and the boat burrowed under. It came up slowly, upside down...
...pictures, Two Arabian Knights and The Racket. Then he decided to make a great air picture. He spent $2,000,000 on Hell's Angels. Two flyers died in action before the camera. The death scene of one remains in the picture-a big bombing plane falling in flames. The pilot got out with a parachute but not his assistant, who was working the flame and smoke pots. Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into...
...farce. It is actually a sermon on post-War youth, morals, manners. Its upshot: that sanity and simplicity are best, wine better than gin, old-fashioned love better than new-fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped upbringing, on which Author Marlow raises the curtain little by little as the story goes on. A child when the War began, he was old enough to feel...