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Above the roar of our motors we did not hear the approach of that first shell. But I saw the flame leap out of the boat next to me and the crash shook our boat. The boat jerked once or twice and then went on. Abruptly I sat down in the bottom, not as a precaution but because I was afraid. I heard a soldier say: "I saw a shell close like that in training once," and I was more afraid...
...lindens and horse chestnuts drifted through the smoky night air and fell on the graveled paths of the Tiergarten. Summer was almost over in Berlin. It was the fourth anniversary of the day on which Germany had attacked Poland. The sky above Berlin suddenly leaped into white shimmering flame...
...Flames shot into the air. Bullets began zinging around the heads of the spectators on the field-"as if some berserk machine gunner were trying to strafe the world," one spectator said later. A creeping curtain of flame covered the sagebrush desert for half a mile around the wreckage. Crash cars and ambulances stood by helplessly...
Some 50 yards away and without warning the Germans opened fire. Two trawlers burst into flame and sank; three escaped. Twelve men drowned. The Swedish Government protested, demanding assurances and compensation...
Chemist Midgley buckled down, with a corps of able assistants, in Frigidaire's Dayton, Ohio laboratory. Compound after compound was examined, tested, cast aside. Finally Chemist Midgley hit on dichlorodifluoromethane (carbon; chlorine; water; and the mineral, fluorspar). It was nonpoisonous, odorless, would not support flame. For the second spectacular time, Midgley had rung the laboratory bell...