Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 120 Bombings. Within minutes of the blast, fire crackled around highly volatile chemicals. Survivors staggered out of buildings from which black smoke billowed. They could hear the moans of those trapped inside. But there was no panic, no screaming. To the workers this was an old, familiar story. In 1921, more than 80% of the northern third of the vast plant at Oppau, three miles northwest of Ludwigshafen, had gone up in one terrible roar that took 565 lives. Just five years-minus one day-before this week's explosion, a similar blast had taken 73 lives. During...
...whom rely at least indirectly on the plant for their living, also showed a noticeable lack of panic. When the blast disintegrated windows in houses as far as five miles away, the people poked their heads through the empty frames, looked up at the monster column of billowing black smoke, and yelled across to one another: "So, it is the factory again...
...dead and dying, with gas masks which proved invaluable when chemical fumes threw back rescue workers. As the fires raged on into the night, these G.I.s, led by quiet little Lieut. Colonel Walter F. Partin of Nashville, Tenn., worked without pause, performing a thousand acts of heroism in the smoke & flames. Bulldozing a path through one rubble-strewn street, Bill McKee, a big, tough technician, fourth grade, spotted six loaded gasoline tank cars on a siding next to one of the biggest fires. Wheeling his bulldozer around, he plunged into the smoke, came out pulling the cars away from danger...
Died. James Eli ("Sunny Jim") Watson, 84, brass-lunged Old Guard Republican Senator from Indiana (1916-32) and Senate majority leader under Herbert Hoover; in Washington. A high-tariff isolationist, Watson fought the League of Nations, was a busy figure in the G.O.P.'s "smoke-filled room" convention of 1920, which nominated Warren Harding. After the Democratic landslide of 1932 he retired to private law practice and a vociferous back seat in his party. His favorite and most printable partisan aphorism: "Hell is the final home of the Democratic Party...
...about fire hazards, wondered the frustrated inspector? Did the Russians know that fire laws prohibited occupancy of a frame house by more than 15 people? "Our people," said the comrade, as faces peered from virtually every window of the huge, three-story mansion, "do not smoke in bed. We will have no fires...