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Some thought it was engine failure. Others blamed it on lightning. The company said the pilot, trapped in a storm-swept Swiss valley, had flown through a cloud, crashed blindly into a mountainside. Whatever caused it, the Douglas airliner lay wrecked among the pine trees, its nine passengers and crew of four all dead...
...afternoon last week peasants miles away from Wittenberg heard a dull roar like distant thunder, followed by other roars which came closer & closer. A huge cloud of reeking yellow smoke mushroomed up from Reinsdorf. In less than a minute bells were ringing, sirens screaming all over the countryside. Truckloads of soldiers, storm troopers, police, and labor service units were mobilized to keep order. Private automobiles were commandeered to carry dead and wounded. It did not take the shattered windows, the bits of blackened debris dropping from the sky, to tell what had happened: the West-phalian Anhalt munitions works were...
...Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished. In the dark, townsfolk watched whole houses and barns float by on the boiling flood waters. The water stood five feet deep in the Burlington station at Red Cloud, and two Chicago-Denver trains were stalled by washouts...
...mean level of intelligence of the men who make it up. As a result, the sections are usually designed for the C-man, acting as a ball-and-chain on the student fitted to go on at a brisker pace and leaving in a hopeless cloud of academic dust the E-man who cannot possibly keep up the pace...
...Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking and spreading with the change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great blue-black patches which by spectroscopic analysis he finds, with croaks of envy, to be oceans of water. Heavily wooded areas look dark to him and he has difficulty distinguishing them from the oceans. The Sahara and Arabian Deserts look fairly bright, the clouds three times...