Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Flung Huey, the sage, goes south for the day and, mint julep in hand, predicts a hard fought win for the underdog Tulane tornado over Denny Myers' revamped B. C. sugarbowlers...
...Nearing the home turn, he was on the heels of the front runners. Could Arcaro keep him from bearing out? The crowd held its breath for a moment, then let go in a nervous yell. Whirlaway had shot through an opening, was tearing down the stretch like a tornado...
Meanwhile the British, all-out in the manufacture of Typhoons, were also busy with another plane, the Tornado, powered by a 2,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce (the Vulture). Better bet of the two seemed to be the Napier, and last week British representatives in Washington were reputed to be urging OPM to get busy and manufacture Sabres on a big scale. Luckily for the U.S. Army Air Corps, one of its top-flight airmen has seen the Typhoon perform, has had a good look at its engine. British newsmen reported that Major General Henry H. Arnold seemed more impressed...