Word: tornadoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout. First instinct of those who have seen this terrifying natural phenomenon, which links heaven and earth with a dark, serpentine Jacob's ladder, is to get out of its path...
...waterspout, often a mile high, 200 ft. in diameter, carries a great volume of water which it sucks from the sea. Terrifying to seamen by virtue of the fact that the column whirls at the rate of 150 m. p. h., these twisters are seldom long lived. Tornadoes over land last longer, travel from 30 to 50 mi. Greatest in the U. S. was that of 1925 which stretched a ribbon of destruction across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. In its wake were 695 dead and $16.500,000 worth of tangled, destroyed property.* Instead of transporting water, tornadoes carry chickens, small live...
...Their cult forbids traveling on the Sabbath. They stopped over at Wagon Mound. That Friday night Charles Geist dreamed that he was dead. So moved was he that next morning he broke another Sabbath law. He wrote his wife Gussie of his morbid dream. A few hours later a tornado swept through Wagon Mound, killed...
...rose menacingly around Smackover last week, did a million dollars dam age to surrounding oil fields. Its city hall be came relief headquarters. Measles developed in its refugee camp. A woman bore a child while floating downstream on a raft. The Red river raged with high water. An Arkansas tornado snorted through Elaine, left 17 dead behind...
...Mayo Clinic. Forty-seven years ago this summer Rochester was a leveled mass of ruins; a tornado had twisted its base, uprooted it. William Worrell Mayo, country doctor, Indian fighter, took charge of patching up the scores of injured people in the small town. His boys helped...