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Tornado. Out of a darkened sky in Kansas swept a savage downpour of rain. In eastern Kansas City the rain suddenly became a sky-high funnel, black-dirty, twisting, swerving, diving, hopping with aimless, deadly ferocity. By the time men yelled "Tornado!" the wind was past. Three people were killed, at least 135 others injured more or less critically. Houses were leveled, a newly built church converted into rubble, trees, streets, power lines ripped and broken. Men & women who knew the dreaded roaring noise threw their children to the floor, themselves on top of the children, as their roofs were...
...before they would believe it. They were rapidly convinced that the China "Incident" had been disastrous and costly enough without tackling The Netherlands East Indies. They were inclined to believe The Netherlands East Indies threat that, if necessary, every oil well, pipeline and refinery would be blown sky-high before the Japanese could get at them. They were also aware that the Japanese might never have even a chance to attack the Indies, that the way might be barred by the U.S. Navy and Air Force-which could bomb Japan's cities. Many statesmanlike Japanese, indeed, even favored pulling...
...even Jersey City's sky-high taxes did not pay the breathtaking cost of supporting the city in the style to which Hague has accustomed his loyal followers. Among its sister cities of the U.S., not counting bonded debt for utilities. Jersey City has the highest per capita net bonded debt: $172.33. Average...
...worked on, unmindful of little ceremonies and speeches before movie cameras. With the precise delicacy of spider legs, the slender, giant cranes moved steadily on, lifting twelve-ton buckets of concrete to pour on the dam's western heights. "Dinky" skinners drove trains of concrete buckets over the sky-high trestle; tin-helmeted shove runners and gear-jammers, tools in their belts, plowed on with their job: to move 1,000,000 feet of dirt out of a slide area...
...lasts for three hours without any interruption. Soldiers who have participated in the French offensive say that it was not so bad at the front. It is difficult to learn how much industry has suffered as this is kept in great secret. . . . "The frame of mind [Stimmung] was naturally sky-high during the summer. Everywhere one could hear the stereotype phrase: In three weeks the war is finished. In the meantime that has changed and the frame of mind is going downwards strongly. All people are more than nervous...