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Seconds later, with what a control-tower officer called "awful suddenness," the Viscount disappeared from Gatwick's radar screen. Three and a half miles from the airport, the big turboprop plane topped the pines in Jordan's Woods, cut a 30-ft. swath through the saplings, slammed into an oak tree 50-ft. tall. Both wings and all four engines were sheared off. Exploding fuel tanks set fires among the pines. The plane's tail, which had snapped off, hung eerily from a fog-shrouded tree...
...roof of a sports arena, uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years ago St. Louis' "silk stocking'' district, the twister changed its swath-cutting pattern and skip-bombed its havoc: it ripped up some of the same buildings that were wrecked in the St. Louis tornado of 1927 (which killed 78), dropped at random like a cleaver in some blocks, spewed rubble into great heaps. And then, perhaps five minutes after it had begun...
...circ. 220,221), Tribune (circ. 128,824) and Sunday Register (circ. 515,599) blanket Iowa like the state's fertile black topsoil; the Minneapolis Tribune (circ. 208,236), Star (circ. 290,960) and Sunday Tribune (circ. 630,035) sell throughout Minnesota and North and South Dakota, cut a swath through western Wisconsin...
...taller than anything now standing in Los Angeles-and three of 22 stories). Near them will spring up an 1 8-story, 1,000-room hotel, a six-story motion-picture arts center with adjoining 4,000-seat auditorium, a series of shops and department stores. Cutting a swath through the whole development will be a 175-ft.-wide concourse almost a mile long, with a centerway of statuary, fountains and subtropical plants...
...heeded them. By 7 p.m., when the twister swirled over the state line with a roar like a highballing freight train, the 16-store Ruskin Heights shopping center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles long, in some places ploughed a 1,000-yd. swath, splintered more than 700 homes and 40 stores. Ruskin Heights and its shopping center were hard hit. Four died when a supermarket roof collapsed. Total storm toll: 38 dead, 200 injured...