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...stop sign poked through the ceiling of their son's room and an exercise machine had been transplanted from their bedroom to their daughter's. The front yard looked freshly plowed and the few trees still standing had been stripped of their leaves. The Gosnell's hometown of Atlantic, Pa. (pop. 225), had been leveled, its feed mill, post office, general store and gas station all destroyed. Even the green spring wheat had been ripped right out of the ground...
...eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and southern Ontario, the hardest hit areas, dozens of roiling black spouts hopscotched across the countryside. It took just ten seconds for a twister to rip through a shopping center in Beaver Falls, Pa., tossing autos through plate glass windows as it went. "There was debris coming out of the top of the funnel," said Fireman Paul Gorby. "It was like a big runaway locomotive." The tornado peeled off the center's roof like a box top; rescue workers had to bring in a crane to lift fallen steel , girders that were pinning bodies below...
...Albion, Pa., "whole roofs just exploded," said Fire Fighter Fred Kiedaisch. "There was debris 100 feet in the air -- houses, trees, poles, even outboard motors." Afterward, police canine teams searched the rubble for bodies. They found nine, with 20 still missing by morning...
...have tired my life in an atmosphere of deepest respect for Harvard. My grandfather father, several uncles, three brothers and a sister all were pa. Harvard alumni family. Indeed, at the invitation of the editors, I wrote a piece for last year's reunion issue of The Crimson about the difficulties and rewards of working my way through Harvard at the depth of the depression. When I received my degree a year after the rest of my class in 1935, the platform was graced by Albert Einstein. Thomas Mann and others who had made great contributions to our knowledge...
...different kind of savings institution emerged with the founding of the Oxford-Provident Building Association in Frankford, Pa. This forerunner of the modern savings and loan was created to give loans for home building. Over the years, the two types of thrift institutions -- savings banks and savings and loan associations -- became very similar, and both pursued the same primary goals: catering to small depositors and granting home mortgages. Commercial banks concentrated on business lending and had the legal power to make a broader range of investments, from oil ventures to foreign loans...