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...negotiations, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson, head of the U.S. economic mission to India, who had also got from President Roosevelt the title of "minister plenipotentiary and personal representative of the President." In his best brash style, Personal Representative Johnson had blown up a small tornado of interviews (19 with Sir Stafford Cripps, 16 with the Indian National Congress Party's Jawaharlal Nehru). He got along famously with his Indian callers, freely admitting that he knew nothing about India except what he had learned from Kim and With Clive In India as a boy. Once...
Returns. In Kansas City, a tornado blew a $270 check from the desk of J. E. Wyatt. It was returned to him from Mendota, Mo., 150 miles away. In Charlestown, N.H., a mail clerk who lost a jackknife figured he might possibly have dropped it into one of 14 outgoing mail sacks. He wrote to 14 out-of-town postmasters, got back 16 knives...
Strange and viciously unseasonable was U.S. weather last week. Snow came, heat came, drought came, wind came-in all sizes: little capfuls that scuttered leaves along a million autumn sidewalks, breezes that sailed or deadened thousands of punted footballs; squalls, gales, tempests; a hurricane, a tornado...
...Tornado. Out of a darkened sky in Kansas swept a savage downpour of rain. In eastern Kansas City the rain suddenly became a sky-high funnel, black-dirty, twisting, swerving, diving, hopping with aimless, deadly ferocity. By the time men yelled "Tornado!" the wind was past. Three people were killed, at least 135 others injured more or less critically. Houses were leveled, a newly built church converted into rubble, trees, streets, power lines ripped and broken. Men & women who knew the dreaded roaring noise threw their children to the floor, themselves on top of the children, as their roofs were...
Witnesses tried to describe the peculiar sound of the tornado. Said one: "... A loud slapping noise, as if a truck was running down the street with all four tires flat." Like "the rumble of a train," said Joe Parker, 12. ("I wasn't scared...