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Word: sells-floto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded man was blown to death under a bus before the Drake Hotel. Nine other deaths were somehow attributed to the storm. The Sells-Floto Circus came to town from its winter headquarters at Peru. Ind., at the height of the blizzard. In the New York Central yards, 200 men tussled with half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels. Menagerie fatalities: two monkeys, two cockatoos, a springbok. Hearses never reached cemeteries. Big employers like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Spring Storm | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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