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Word: hirakata (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blast after deafening blast rocked the neighborhood, and with each blow the sky flashed. brighter. Flames spurted up all over the village, spreading fast on an angry north wind into the neighboring factory town of Hirakata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tonoyamamachi's Terror | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

OSAKA, Japan, Thursday -- More than 50,000 men were massed in the suburb of Hirakata today in an effort to restore order following a munitions dump explosion in which scores of persons were reported killed or injured...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

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