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...North Carolina, a tornado killed four, injured 20 in Roxobel...
...Alabama, a tornado shattered two towns (Hackleburg and Vinemont), killed four, drove 300 from their homes...
...little red schoolhouse, an institution already badly battered by the winds of modernity, last week faced a tornado. One thousand Illinois schools have closed recently because poorly paid teachers are taking war jobs. Most of the shutdowns are one-room rural schools-the 9,703 one-room schools of Illinois outnumber those of any other state...
Somewhere on his trip around the world Wendell Willkie met a cyclonic outburst of popular feeling. Instead of diving for a storm cellar, he stood up to the tornado, felt its fury, and measured its strength. Convinced that he found no simple stirring of the breeze, the 1940 Presidential candidate reported his observations to the American people in words at once the most outspoken and the most resolute since the war began...
Where the Rivers Meet (1939) established Ward Dorrance as a leisurely, competent novelist of the Missouri country where he was born. This book is just as leisurely. At the end of Noel Deslauriers' long, reflective childhood, his mother and grandmother were killed by a tornado. Noel's grandfather took for his second wife a coarse, managing woman who turned Noel off the farm. Bravely, Noel tried to make himself into a St. Louis businessman, realized at last that it was no use, returned to the land. Ostensibly the story of a boy growing up on a prosperous farm...