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...fired at random. In Brighton an army eleven was playing cricket against the local police. Lieut. G. W. Wood was bowling when a bomb hit the playing green. "I found myself blown some distance away," he said. The chief constable, waiting to bat, threw himself down and an iron girder fell across his neck...
...April day in 1917, war-conscious Manhattanites at Broadway & 42nd Street gawked at a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed damsel clad in an American flag, nonchalantly riding a steel girder to the top of a 20-story building under construction. Flinging a bundle of recruiting circulars to the spectators, the merry lady nonchalantly descended and cried: "I've done my bit! Now do yours...
...shut down during raids. Let ters took three days to get across London, five to reach the country; and telegrams were almost as bad. Long-distance tele phoning was practically impossible. Euston, Victoria and Waterloo railway sta tions were badly damaged; the Victoria train shed, a massive thing of girder and glass, was crushed across tracks...
...Belgium's defense was in final readiness, and correspondents were shown that country's new defense against tanks: mobile, steel-girder "gates" on rollers, which can be pushed across country, two men to a gate, or dragged in long lines by tractors. Chained together, the gates form a resilient wall which impedes tanks butting it yet is not easily broken by shellfire. Tanks slowed down by the bending wall would make easy targets for defensive fire. Belgium was said to have enough such gates for a continuous wall all along her German frontier...
...plunged bumping across the steel bridge, sideswiping telegraph poles, coming at last to a miraculous halt on the other side. But to all but four of the remaining cars came disaster. Six jumped the bridge, plunged 15 feet to the drying riverbed. One car was skewered by a steel girder. Bodies and bits of bodies blotted the wreckage...