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Next day Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair flew over from Dallas, 110 mi. to the west, to see his costly cauldron. He found the entire countryside shrouded in haze. Workmen were busy clearing away 20 acres of pine forest surrounding the flaming gusher, trying to remove bits of the white-hot derrick and machinery. There was not much that Oilman Sinclair, always popular with his men, could do but assure speedy pensions to the families of the victims...
Calling his secretary, dictating a white-hot signed pronouncement for his Daily Mail (daily of world's largest English language circulation) Viscount Rothermere reasoned himself completely around the Fascist circle thus...
...inspection. Directly over the business section, one of her motors backfired, flames licked open the hydrogen-filled bag. In an instant, the peaceful scene changed to a holocaust. Four of the five passengers jumped with parachutes. The fifth, his harness tangled, fumbled and fumbled with it as the white-hot wreckage carried him to death. The flames ignited the parachute of one of the jumpers. He dropped straight to destruction. The other three landed. One died later of his injuries. Thus did the two survivors, Henry Wacker and John Boettner, take places one and two in the fiery inauguration...
...Zvezvan, Jugoslavia, a wedding party was proceeding to the church when a white-hot meteor 16 inches in diameter hurtled into a carriage in front of the bride's, killed one guest, injured another. The bride fainted, came to, went on with the ceremony...
...meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted .50 calibre Browning machine guns blow forth eight sulphur-colored blossoms, fling white-hot missiles at a similar aerial target to score 36 direct hits...