Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is not really much mystery about green, red or other-colored rain. A quick-acting biologist could probably have proved with a few squints through a microscope that Dayton's rain got its color from algae (microscopic plants) sucked up by a tornado. Full-sized tornadoes can lift heavy objects (such as signboards) high into the clouds. Even little whirlwinds can vacuum-clean the surface of a pond and deposit its green scum many miles away as discolored rain. Sometimes small fish or frogs are sucked up (and later dropped) with the water...
...same tornado hit nearby Bunker Hill (pop. 1,350), demolished more than 200 of its 300 houses. Other tornadoes tore across the Indiana countryside, blowing over barns and wrecking trees...
...tornado whipped through the center of Mississippi. In the single town of Newton (pop. 1,800), nine people were killed and 25 injured...
...ugly steel-mill town of Gary, Ind. one day last week, hundreds of pupils' clustered excitedly outside Emerson school, a little uncertain what to do next. They were on strike. In a locked room inside, School Superintendent Charles D. Lutz pleaded with the members of the Emerson "Golden Tornado" football team. He figured that they could end the strike if anyone could: like most U.S. schools, Emerson is full of boys whose chief interest in life is football, and girls whose chief interest is boys who play football...
...High School students to end a strike over Negro pupils; the bobby-soxers squealed with delight but didn't take any of his line of reasoning. Superintendent Lutz, a strapping six-footer who used to be a football player himself, fared no better last week with the Golden Tornado team. Said one player: "We'll go back to school if you transfer the Negroes...