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...control and window surfaces of our B-29's wrecked, but the chances of dodging the larger chunks of falling lava (the biggest I saw was the size of a small watermelon) appeared good enough, and the natural rain from the clouds which formed under the great tornado of smoke overhead managed to allay the sulfuric fumes...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgic, | Title: Mt. Etna Erupting? "Say, that reminds me," Says Crimeditor: "Why, 'way back when . . ." | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

High Wind. Over the central plains, meanwhile, the dying storm sucked in new air like an empyrean vacuum cleaner. One of its gulps started a tornado roaring through north central Arkansas and southern Missouri. Seven died. Another sent half a dozen twisters spinning through Alabama and up into Georgia. Six died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Great Yelling | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Hard Blow. In Windsor, Ont., a tornado half wrecked George Mekita's home, whisked away a policy against wind damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...copy boy who could not read English clipped the news flash off the teletype and hung it on a hook at the news desk, where it lay unnoticed for 20 minutes. The news hit the Oklahoma City Times just as it was tearing up its forms to report a tornado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How the News Spread | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Maryland. Anti-New Dealer Millard Tydings was expected to hold fast to his Senate seat even if a Dewey tornado sweeps the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The 1944 Little Show | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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