Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 7,000 of them. After they had filled hotels to the bulging point, they overflowed onto army cots hastily set up in the municipal auditorium. But bunking on cots was no hardship. These kids were accustomed to a rough life. They were the Future Farmers of America, in town for their 20th annual convention...
...crane and his wrecking ball, Big Jim was the delight of Pittsburgh's sidewalk superintendents. Every day, hundreds of people gathered to watch him work. The Pittsburgh Press ran a Sunday feature story about Big Jim. The story said that he was "the best free show in town...
...Race Horse. The flames struck hardest at Bar Harbor, Me. (pop. 4,300), summer playground of the rich and famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates and touching...
...also closed the road which linked Bar Harbor with a bridge to the mainland. At nightfall, with the town all but cut off, with electricity gone and with thick, fire-reddened clouds of smoke whipping everywhere, 2,000 people-mostly women and children-gathered on the town pier. Fishing boats and Coast Guard vessels, some of which were forced to maneuver through the smoke with radar, began taking them aboard. Hundreds crossed to the mainland through heavy, gale-driven seas. Then Army bulldozers opened the road and automobiles began running the fiery gauntlet again...
Like a Butter Pat. By morning, when the danger began to abate, Bar Harbor was a ghost town, surrounded by hot and smoking ruins...