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Never one to neglect business, Cap took the little girl to his store every day for a while, sometimes let her sleep at night on a cot in his second-floor storeroom near what she recalls as "a row of peculiar long boxes." Her father told her they were "dry goods," but Lady Bird later learned they were coffins...
...explosion, from a leaking gas tank in a commissary storeroom beneath the audience, had blasted a sheet of flame up through 128 of the Coliseum's choicest box seats, catapulting men and women-many still in their seats-in blazing arcs through the air. Slabs of concrete the size of small cars went up 50 ft., then slammed down on a crowded section of folding chairs below the box seats, crushing dozens and trapping many more in tons of debris...
...excited about magnets, and I remember discovering electric bells and batteries. With my allowance I bought a pound of wire, a battery and a bell--I guess I was fourteen. I made batteries with potassium dichromate dissolved in sulfuric acid. I had a little workshop in the storeroom. Once, to show the batteries, I carried them out on a tray and tripped; I spilled sulfuric acid all over the living room floor...
shrewdness famed And genius versatile . . . The poem's climactic, blood-bubbling passage emerges thus with Fitzgerald: From storeroom to the court they...
...thick, 6-in. concrete walls, and would be equipped with a handoperated air pump. After being properly stocked with food, said Doremus, it could house a family of six for six weeks. Doremus pointed out that in peacetime, the shelter could be put to use as a storeroom or photographic darkroom...