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...steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown buildings, watching the storm crash through the stone canyons. Up & down Long Island and through Westchester County huge old trees were uprooted bodily, usually falling south...
...them had flown dangerous missions over Italy, had earned and spent 30 days at home in the U.S. Now, assigned to duty in the U.S., they were bound for Miami. Before they went to bed, they yelled, sang, talked with a luxurious feeling of safety about bombing raids. The crash that sent their sleepers rolling into the soybean fields beside the track killed 25 of them within seconds...
...trains, operated by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, collided at 2:20 a.m. The crash woke Albert Kellett and his wife Ruth. Kellett threw back the covers sleepily and looked out the window. Lights were glowing strangely in the fog over the railroad right of way; soon he began to hear men screaming in the dark fields. Then the boiler of one of the locomotives blew up. Kellett telephoned for help and ran out into the night. Some of the airmen were crying for morphine; others stumbled aimlessly through the blood-spattered wreckage...
...Murray. Before he even mentioned the no-strike pledge, Philip Murray was being loudly booed. Murray raised his hand for silence. Calmly and politely he asked the convention not to boo. Then he warned the quiet audience that reneging on the no-strike pledge might cause the union to crash beneath irate public opinion...
...pany C's 5 to 3 victory over Company E Tuesday. Two last inning tallies broke a tie and enabled Ash Carter to down Jim Knowles, former moundsman of Crash Davis' B outfit. An 8 to 4 win by Company D over A completes the week's summary...