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...week's end came failure. With the roar of a great explosion, the flood burst the dike, billowed over about 25,000 acres, destroying much of the area's winter wheat. A big stored crop of potatoes was lost. That was not the worst of it: the Fenlands' farmers feared that it might take two years to pump out the lowlands and restore them to productivity...
Suddenly there was a roar and a rush of air, and the navigator vanished. Said Flight Engineer Dick Trischler: "I heard a loud noise and that was all there was to it. I saw him and then I didn...
...treasurer of the Canadian Trades & Labor Congress, had nothing against unions. What angered Sullivan, Irish-born and onetime Roman Catholic, were the Communists in the unions. This was an eye-opener because Sullivan had long been a party-liner and, everybody felt pretty sure, a party member. In his roar of rage, Sullivan confirmed these suspicions. He said he had joined the Communist Party two years after he began organizing the C.S.U. in 1935. He led C.S.U. in its first successful strike in 1938, built up membership to about 5,000 in Great Lakes, river and coastal ports...
...waited less than a minute. Driving into the curve ten miles west of Altoona, Pa., the lead locomotive of the crack Pennsylvania sleeper lost its footing. With a night-splitting roar, it ground into the ties, buckled, and took off over a 55-ft. embankment, pulling with it the second locomotive, a baggage car, three Pullmans and a diner...
Coach Forest Ridings sent his Lions back with a roar in the second half, and three quick baskets moved the visitors to a 29 to 28 deficit in the first 100 seconds. But the Varsity was not to be denied, and its upsurge it found, at last, some athletes who could share the scoring burden with Hauptfuhrer and Mariaschin. jack Clark, a substitute forward, took over Mariaschin's role as backboard retriever, and caged six of eight fouls, three in a row, to pace the second half drive...