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Word: tanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston and Maine locomotive crashed into a tank car on a railroad siding in the Somerville train yard at 9 a.m. yesterday, cutting a large gash in the side of the 13,000 gallon tank and sending the liquid streaming...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...late evening yesterday, most of the liquid had been pumped into two tank trucks and taken away from the site...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

Firemen in gas masks shoveled debris off the track to help the liquid drain off into the pit, from which workers later pumped it into a waiting tank truck...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...flow from the damaged car slowed shortly after 1 p.m., after the level of liquid in the tank fell below the gash. Workers also attempted to plug the leak with insulation material...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...fumes almost knocked me down--I was choking and crying," Norman A. Lally, general agent of the train yard who was sitting in a trailer 15 feet from the tank car when the accident occurred, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

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