Word: mont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mont-Saint-Michel, rock-ribbed island abbey founded in the 8th Century, intact...
...loveliest country the Missouri is rich in historic sites that almost nobody ever sees because nobody ever uses the river for travel any more -old campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed to Fort Benton, Mont., 3,575 miles from salt water. (Round trip fare between St. Louis and Fort Benton was $300; the menu included smoked buffalo tongue, bear and elk; profits were as high as $40,000 a single voyage; the captains got $1,200 a month...
Anxious Haligonians, who from shore had watched the billows of smoke and the swords of flame leap from the Volunteer, knew-some of them could even remember-what Halifax had missed. In December 1917 another munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, had caught fire in their harbor. In one monstrous moment, 4,000 tons of TNT exploded...
Nothing remained where the Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
...HENRY ELLIS Butte, Mont...