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...native blacks hastily abandoned their plantation huts, moved their wives & children up the sides of the valleys to what they thought was safety. No sooner had they escaped the floods than worse disaster loomed. In the hills the soaked ground gave way here & there, slipped with a roar into the valleys. Panic-stricken natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana and sugar plantation laborers to keep communications open, evacuate the people to the coast. The rains fell harder. As though the soil were...
Next day, as the rains continued, the worst thing of all happened. One of St. Lucia's mountains simply cracked open, sent a high wall of rich, loose loam rushing down neighboring valleys with a terrifying roar...
...jampacked the old Civil War race course outside Baltimore. In hushed silence they watched the two thoroughbreds walk up to the starting line,* watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite, was closing the gap-one length, two lengths. At the half-mile post they were neck & neck; at the three-quarter post they looked like one horse against the autumn background...
...hates the conveyer belt and dreams of going into the clam-digging business, it is the work of a University of Michigan graduate, now 44, who received "a sort of scholarship" in a large Detroit factory (presumably Ford's), fled to Southern California "to get away from the roar and thunder of the automatics in the factory and the climbing production figures on the big chart in the office...
...there was a fire in the basement of the City Hall, and soon shrieks of sirens and the roar of motors poured in the windows which had been opened to let the smoke pour out. This did not, however, deter the clerk from reading some matter-of-form letters. And curiosity, perhaps, but no surprise, moved many naive listeners when the President mumbled "The place is on fire" after each letter. As the fire sub-sided, though, they found he was saying "Placed on Fire...