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Wrote Laurence, of the deathly bloom that rose from Nagasaki: "A giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar...
Suddenly, at the No. 5 elevator of the Saskatchewan Pool Terminal, Ltd., where the Sonora was loading, a pillar of flame shot 300 ft. skyward. There was an earth-shaking roar, heard several miles away. No. 5's cement walls, towering 180 ft. above dock level, fell apart like cardboard. The top four floors of the big bin were sheared away, and fell in a death-dealing avalanche of concrete and twisted steel, smashing nearby freight cars pancake flat. Concrete pillars, 2 ft. square, were tossed through the air like matchsticks...
...company profits went right on gushing skyward. Net income of the Standard Oil Co. of California for the first half jumped from 1944's $9.8 million to $14.7 million. Smaller Phillips Petroleum did better; its $2.96 a share compared with $1.83 of a year ago. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) came up with an estimate of a cool $84 million v. $71 million...
...capital's hush every sound was audible-the twitter of birds in new-leafed shade trees; the soft, rhythmic scuffing of massed, marching men in the street; the clattering exhaust of armored scout cars moving past, their machine guns cocked skyward. And the beat of muffled drums. As Franklin Roosevelt's flag-draped coffin passed slowly by on its black caisson, the hoofbeats of the white horses, the grind of iron-rimmed wheels on pavement overrode all other sounds...
...massive steel skeleton had sprouted skyward, but war came and the steel was melted down into guns and shells. Last week, with the Germans well whipped, the Russians began building their palace in earnest...