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...engineer and 13,000 Russians mining 10,000 tons of asbestos rock daily in Azbest. . . . "The largest construction camp in the world" going full blast at Magnetogorsk on the Capitalist "piece work" system, building what is to be "the greatest steel centre on Earth. ..." A dam three quarters of a mile long across the Ural River completed in four months...
...Manhattan, private Detective Ervin J. Smith, vice president of the International Secret Service Association, recalled that he was hired to investigate the Black Tom blast immediately after it occurred. Said he last week: "The real story of the explosion is this: The watchmen employed to guard the millions of dollars' worth of War materials, sugar, salt, flour and explosives were bothered by New Jersey mosquitoes that infested the swampy land about Black Tom. They had built themselves a smudge fire to drive them...
Planes are flung into the air from battleships and cruisers by catapults. Originally all these were operated by compressed air. Then it was found that a charge of black powder (a slow explosive), would launch the plane with a more gradual thrust, less of a jerk. But the powder blast sometimes causes accidents, once blew a seaman overboard, makes as much noise as a 5-inch gun. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics ordered a newly designed "blast reducer" for all explosion-catapults. Built somewhat like an automobile muffler ?a cylindrical chamber perforated with many small holes?...
...Examiner had just made one "shot" of The Chief ("WR") being handshaken at city hall by Mayor James ("Sunny Jim'') Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder bottle...
Winter tramped prematurely out of the Northwest last week. A Montana stockman died in a blizzard. Minnesota lakes were skimmed with ice. Michigan had icicles. All around the Great Lakes storm-warning signals crackled in a 50-m.p.h. blast. Car radiators froze in Illinois. A heavy snowstorm swept Dunkirk, N. Y., wrecked power and telephone lines. At Eighteen Mile Creek, N. Y., 2,500 automobiles were stalled overnight in drifts...