Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy boy who could not read English clipped the news flash off the teletype and hung it on a hook at the news desk, where it lay unnoticed for 20 minutes. The news hit the Oklahoma City Times just as it was tearing up its forms to report a tornado...
Maryland. Anti-New Dealer Millard Tydings was expected to hold fast to his Senate seat even if a Dewey tornado sweeps the state...
...confused with the tornado, a whirlwind shaped like an inverted cone, which follows a very narrow course, usually spends itself within a few miles...
...Like a Tornado. The wartime U.S.A. that Dos Passes saw on his trip was unaware of its own achievements. In Port land, Me., the business district looked as if a tornado had struck it. "Everywhere litter and trash, small gimcrack stores, small unswept lunchrooms. . . . There were signs and cigaret ads instead of goods in the shop windows. The shipyard workers lived in half-slums, in trailer camps, in rows of prefabricated dwellings. When the shifts changed, the dense black crowd poured out through the gates, their faces gray and yellowish, their visored caps pulled over their foreheads, their thick clothes...
...Chartiers, Pa., where a mine explosion had killed six a fortnight earlier, eleven more people died in the tornado. Private John Barnish, home on furlough, had lost his father when the explosion laid waste the little town. After the tornado. Private Barnish had his mother and a sister, 12, to bury...