Word: tornadoes
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...tornado whipped through the center of Mississippi. In the single town of Newton (pop. 1,800), nine people were killed and 25 injured...
...ugly steel-mill town of Gary, Ind. one day last week, hundreds of pupils' clustered excitedly outside Emerson school, a little uncertain what to do next. They were on strike. In a locked room inside, School Superintendent Charles D. Lutz pleaded with the members of the Emerson "Golden Tornado" football team. He figured that they could end the strike if anyone could: like most U.S. schools, Emerson is full of boys whose chief interest in life is football, and girls whose chief interest is boys who play football...
...High School students to end a strike over Negro pupils; the bobby-soxers squealed with delight but didn't take any of his line of reasoning. Superintendent Lutz, a strapping six-footer who used to be a football player himself, fared no better last week with the Golden Tornado team. Said one player: "We'll go back to school if you transfer the Negroes...
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...