Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crude, primitive atom bomb that wrecked Hiroshima had the force of only 20,000 tons of TNT. The Nagasaki and Bikini bombs, not much improved, are called "Model Ts" by atomic experts. Last week in Manhattan, before a conference of 250 U.S. mayors, Major General Harold R. Bull, attached to the Army General Staff, hinted at something bigger & better: a bomb equivalent to 40,000 tons of explosive. Apparently an improvement of at least 100% is already...
...near Pasadena, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble had made one of the most flabbergasting discoveries science has ever made. The whole visible universe, Hubble's data told him, is apparently exploding. The matter in space appears to be flying apart far faster than the white-hot gases of detonating TNT...
Incantations & TNT. Volcanoes, on the other hand, are less mysterious and more dangerous. Though they are worshiped as goddesses and damned as hellholes, bubbling craters are really just safety valves, through which molten rock (magma) under the earth's skin can blow off steam from time to time. Volcanoes can be depended on to act up every so often; since 79 A.D., when Pompeii and Herculaneum were first buried, old Vesuvius has popped off about once every generation...
...when the city of Hilo, Hawaii was threatened by Mauna Loa, a local princess was called to the rescue. Mumbling an incantation, she threw a hunk of her hair into the onrushing lava and stopped it right on the outskirts of town. In 1935 the U.S. Army substituted TNT bombs for hair, and tried the same stunt -with about the same result...
...cases, marked "Used Industrial Machinery," into the American Export Lines' Executor. The twelfth case slipped from the loading fork, crashed six feet to the concrete floor, and split open. Trying to repair the case, cooper Raymond Grimm found inside a package holding 50 one-lb. tins of TNT. They were labeled "U.S. Corps of Engineers-TNT-For Front Line Demolition Only." Customs men opened 25 other cases, found a total of 65,000 lbs. of TNT. Later in a warehouse in The Bronx, New York City police found stencils which matched the addresses on the TNT cases: "Haboreg...