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...metals states strapped it into a "Buy American" straitjacket, requiring that everything be purchased in the U.S. unless it was "inconsistent with the public interest" or "unreasonable" in price. It was silly, Harry Truman noted, to build up a stockpile by bringing the U.S.'s own underground reserves aboveground, and as he signed the act he invited the Munitions Board to buy abroad through the loopholes...
Chemical drums went on exploding during the first night and sparks from bulldozer treads fired unburned pools of gasoline and chemicals, but ton after ton of tile, rock and wreckage was dragged out aboveground. The entire tunnel was reopened to traffic only 56 hours after the fire had begun. It would take a million dollars and months of night-time work before the Holland Tunnel was completely restored. But the great tunnel was still tight and safe-fireboats, cruising the Hudson above it, had seen no telltale bubbles of escaping...
...hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate as it was impersonal, it was a weapon precisely designed for sprawling London, precisely calculated to raise havoc with civilian life...
Sydney Page watched the little knot of men at the pit head as they handled the crumpled form of a badly injured miner. Sydney was 18 and worked aboveground at the Newstead Colliery in Nottinghamshire. The injured man was one of 200 seriously hurt each month in British mines, but he was the first casualty Sydney had seen...
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