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Incidentally, just outside Moorhead a playful twister tossed The Empire Builder, crack transcontinental flier, in a wheatfield recently...
...twister struck the Empire Builder broadside just behind the tender. The baggage car coupling snapped like thread. The vacuum sucked coach after coach up from the track, lifted them like a giant's playthings through the air, flopped them down on their sides along the right-of-way. As the storm swirled away eastward, torrents of rain fell upon a wreck unique in U. S. railroading...
During this time the plane did not retreat from the twister but impudently dodged about it. Trusting to powerful motors which drove them along at 127 m. p. h. the crew took photographs, copious notes...
Good recent Wallaces are The Clever One, an engrossing tale of counterfeit money, and The Twister, ingenious yarn of English race tracks and Dutch diamond swindles. Old favorites are: A King by Night, The Green Archer, The Door with Seven Locks, The Girl From Scotland Yard, two of which Queen Mary bought at a London three-penny-six-penny shop for the king (TIME, March...
...Subscriber Justice Brown, tongue-twister but no yawn-provoker. ungaping thanks for a scholarly reprimand...