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Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lightning Lore | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Vanishing American. In Deer Lodge, Mont., state prison guards hunted for an Indian convict, James Comes at Night, who went at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Over the Hump. Near Missoula, Mont., southbound Motorist Aubrey Knowles found the highway blocked by a landslide, peeked over, found a thwarted northbound motorist; the two traded cars, went happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Housekeeping. In Seeley Lake, Mont., the L. A. Otters watched a grouse fly into the house through a closed window, fly out through another. In Centerville, Iowa, a loaded coal truck entered the house of Mrs. Blanche Heck, pushed her, abed, through the wall into the next room, left her against a hot stove, uninjured. In Hammonton, N.J., a train wrecked a truck driven by Jules Press, who flew into the air accompanied by four blankets, on which he landed, slightly bruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 22, 1943 | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

BELLA FLIGELMAN Helena, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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