Word: tornadoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.W.T.W. Near Sterling, Colo., Farmer Marvin Felzein & family drove 120 miles to look over some tornado damage, got back home to find that another big blow had meanwhile blown their house away...
...eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, a tornado cut a zigzag path through heavily settled farm country and a dozen towns, killed five people, did $1,000,000 worth of damage...
Then the weather around the tornado junction of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas quieted down for a while. But the next day the great, hedgehopping twister was on the go again. This time it struck in the small plantation communities 40 miles south of Little Rock, Ark. (pop. 88,000), cut a 20-mile swath of freakish destruction, destroyed over 1,000 houses and other buildings, killed 34 people. While rescuers searched the wreckage for more bodies, they kept a wary eye on the western horizon...
...telephone workers of Woodward, Okla., the phone strike ended the moment they could dig out from the debris of last fortnight's tornado (TiME, April 21). While union officials ordered workers to ignore the emergency and stay on strike, 30 union operators rushed back to their jobs. Last week they made the strike's end official, sent in their resignations with a blistering telegram: "Girls refuse to stop. Will work as long as needed. . . . Would be ashamed of a union which would put up pickets in a disaster like this...
...twister roared on, destroying 35 houses in Whitehorse, Okla. Then it split up into smaller storms that skittered off into Kansas. From White Deer to Whitehorse it had cut a swath 1½ miles wide (the widest* tornado in U.S. history), and marked its trail with 155 counted dead...