Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illinois. A twisting, strangely swooping tornado lacerated Rockford, Ill. Throughout the city, buildings were damaged. The Rockford Cabinet Company collapsed with 150 workers. Thirty-four were injured, eleven killed and four missing, presumably under tons of debris. Estimated property damage...
...Mother" is the sweetest word at the box office. A month ago he released Four Sons, maternal, Bavarian. This week, he released Mother Machree, an Irish valentine. It tells of Ellen (Belle Bennett), who hears in her little Ballymore cottage that her husband has been killed in a sea tornado. With Brian, her son, she starts for the U. S., meeting on the way Bozo (Victor McLaglen), a lanky giant, and his harpist brother. The giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also. Ellen gives Brian to a school teacher...
Except for a tornado, Washington was quiet last week and so were the President's days & nights...
...President Coolidge had prepared himself for a trip to Philadelphia. But he paused on the White House threshold, retreated, waited. From a window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores...
...persons were killed in the St. Louis tornado, 1152 injured badly enough to be hospitalized, $100,000,000 destroyed. 250 city blocks to be rebuilt...