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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...
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...
Hard Blow. In Windsor, Ont., a tornado half wrecked George Mekita's home, whisked away a policy against wind damage...
...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...
Maryland. Anti-New Dealer Millard Tydings was expected to hold fast to his Senate seat even if a Dewey tornado sweeps the state...