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...Charles joined the firm, was tainted by an incident called the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. In January of that year, according to one vivid report, a ?a storage tank holding 2.5 million gallons of molasses exploded, creating a 15-foot tidal wave of sweetness that rushed at 35 mph through downtown Boston, leaving everything brown and sticky like a Mexican restaurant men?s room.... The Great Molasses Flood knocked down several buildings and an elevated train line and drowned 21 unfortunate (and evidently slow) people.? U.S. Industrial Alcohol eventually morphed into Chemstar, which (if I have it right...
...late October afternoon in leafy Brookline, and a routine traffic stop was about to turn into a scene from “Cops.” According to Brookline police, the driver of a white Subaru was doing 70 in a 30 MPH zone and failed to stop when instructed to pull over...
Ohlendorf is one such player. Described as “a bulldog” in his scouting report, Ohlendorf has been clocked at 97 mph and threw a two-hitter against Virginia in the only game Princeton won in the NCAAs...
...guy’s the 51st pick in the [Major League Baseball] draft and I hadn’t had the bat in maybe a month and a half,” Hermann remembers. “The guy’s throwing 95 mph with a slider. It was tough...
...There were a lot of [scouts] to see [Lance] there,” Walsh says. “The first pitch on the radar gun was 92 [mph]. So you could hear the scouts say, ‘What kind of coach is this guy Walsh that he doesn’t use a kid throwing...