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...There were three churches, a two-story wooden hotel, a nine-hole golf course on a slag fill in Granby Bay. But mounting costs shut down the mine in 1935, and Anyox shut up shop, too. Only a few watchmen remained. When lightning in 1942 fired the "tinder-dry slopes behind Anyox and roared down on the deserted town, most of its weathered buildings went up in flames...
Each press association will be allowed five correspondents in Japan, three in the Philippines. In Korea, a political tinder box, no special correspondents will be allowed, and only one man from each press service...
TIME [April 30] gave a complete report on German atrocities. The account of the Erla inhumanities, however, was in error in its reference to acetate. For instance, TIME said "guards unlocked the two doors and hurled in acetate, dousing the tinder-dry buildings" and . . . "in one split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno...
...murmur of worried conversation turned to cries of fright when the guards unlocked the two doors and hurled in acetate, dousing the tinder-dry buildings and splashing over the prisoners crowding close to the only routes of escape...
...Tinder-Hearted City. The same night, from a base in China, another force of Superfortresses made the first incendiary raid on Japan. Target: Nagasaki. Flames spread like wildfire through its flimsy wood and paper buildings while demolition bombs thumped down among sea port, naval-station and manufacturing installations...