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...fighters reached the scene, they encountered what one called "a ball of fire" about 50 ft. high roaring down an alley of the factory complex alongside the city's namesake river. The blaze churned into an inferno that leapt explosively from building to building, incinerating one instantaneously and then--boom!--vaulting on to the next. In the end, some 1,000 fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety of industrial-use chemicals stored in the structures, the fire consumed wooden flooring as though it were paper and blasted through brick walls, sweeping to residences...
...years since World War II have brought a boom among both Evangelicals and Fundamentalists in youth ministries, foreign missions, day schools, publishing ^ and broadcasting. Political activism became necessary, as the Fundamentalists saw it, in order to try to counteract numerous unpalatable social trends and policies. Among goads to action: the 1962 and 1963 Supreme Court rulings against school prayer and Bible reading and the 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. The creation of Moral Majority and the "new religious right" resulted partly from the 1978 IRS decision to stop giving automatic tax exemptions to religious day schools and to set racial...
...fact, more than just upscale retail sales and rents are funding the nationwide preservation boom. Since 1982, the Federal Government has granted owners of certified historic buildings a 25% tax credit on renovation costs. For every $4 put into qualified rehabilitation, the developer pays $1 less to the IRS. The incentive effect has been extraordinary. In fiscal 1980, before the new tax law was passed, 614 Historic Register renovations were approved; last year the number was 3,214. St. Louis has used the tax incentives more often than any other city, and the Union Station project is the single biggest...
Most of the changes have been triggered by the baby-boom generation. Born between 1946 and 1964, they are 75 million strong, one out of every three Americans, the largest generation in U.S. history. Next year the oldest of them will turn 40. The generation that could hum TV jingles before it could hum the national anthem, that made rock 'n' roll and protest into rites of passage, and swore never to trust anyone over 30, is becoming middle-aged...
Botha: I don't know. That revolutionary-backed United Democratic Front has a few big unions behind it. And the workers have been pretty active here since 1980. Only 101 strikes occurred in 1979, then boom. They went up to 207 the next year. And since 1980, membership in Black unions has mushroomed from 220,000 to about 700,000. They even called to two-day general strike last fall. Can you imagine? They might shut down the entire economy. You guys better send some troops down here...