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Boom Town. In Meteor City, Ariz., Sole Resident Jack Newsome got married, doubled the population...
...proposal that the moon be bombed was made in dead earnest last week by Meteor-Expert H. H. Nininger...
...instance) by shooting out side-blasts of gas or radiation. When returning to earth, they could be slowed down gradually by coasting in a lopsided spiral through the outer fringes of the atmosphere. If they should hit the denser air unbraked, they would turn as white-hot as a meteor...
...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...
Thus 1946 took up where 1945 had left off-and in the same area. Only 16 nights before, only 64 miles to the north, the Seaboard's west coast Silver Meteor had knifed into cars of the northbound Sun Queen, killing six, injuring 62. Seventy-two hours later, a Southern Railway freight had piled up on the rear of a New Orleans-New York limited, killing three...