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...made a terrific noise. Big waves of black smoke and debris billowed out of the cave. But this was a well-constructed hole which went deep into the earth and heaven knows how far back. About all that came to the surface was the wooden framing of two-inch planks and a cheap suitcase filled with shirts and silk underwear and an empty cloth pocketbook...
Into the yard came two sixth-grade girls, 11 and 13 years old, wearing black Halloween masks. One of them grabbed Margaret's arm, the other plunged into her chest a two-edge, two-inch blade. Margaret fell silently and the attackers fled. The teachers hustled the children indoors. A few minutes later, Margaret Patton died...
...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...
...Bubbling." At 2 a.m. on Monday there was a wisp of gas and a roughneck snapped "Fires out!" The drill motors and the engines of the watchers' automobiles were silenced; greasy mud began to slop out of the two-inch tube onto the derrick floor. All night long the Cottingham belched and spluttered, while roustabouts scraped the mud into testing tanks...
...magnesium plant in California-nobody heard much about it. But last week came bad news that got around: at Kaiser's Portland (Ore.) Swan Island yard the newly delivered 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady suddenly broke in half with a thunderous snap, settled in the water with its two-inch steel plates split clean asunder, the midship sections sticking out of the water like crags...