Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned the neighborhood of the station into an inferno...
...swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...
Inaugurating competition in skiing among the "Big Three", the University ski team will meet Princeton and Yale in downhill and slalom in Tuckerman's Ravine on April '1. Next Sunday the "A" team will race in the annual "Inferno" down Mt. Washington, the most difficult downhill race held in the east...
Some months ago WPA took cognizance of the subterranean inferno, not only because of the damage done but also in view of the job possibilities of a fire-control project. Mining engineers were convinced that the fire could be confined within its present limits, there to burn itself out eventually, by laying down massive barricades of non-inflammable material. WPA officials made plans to provide a year's work to 300 men, spend $360,000 of which New Straitsville would contribute some...
...calling with urgent orders. All leaves were to be canceled. Most of the Annapolis midshipmen aboard on summer training cruise were to be transferred to other warships. The ship and the Coast Guard cutter Cayuga were to proceed to San Sebastian immediately to rescue U. S. citizens from the inferno of Spanish civil war. Under way, the Oklahoma's petty officers doubled up in their cabins, and sailors cleared out the crews' recreation room for an emergency nursery. Plowing down the Bay of Biscay watch officers worried. U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers had not been heard from...