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...bomber gored through the thick steel and stone of the building as if they were papier-mâché. Then, in a flash of flame, the gasoline tanks exploded. In another instant flames leaped and seeped inside & outside the building...
Bright fire gushed from the 18-ft. wound in the structure's side, reached for the topmost observation tower on the 102nd floor. Gasoline fumes popped in flash explosions four and five floors below. Thick, acrid smoke billowed above & below, soon filled the upper floors...
...secret of this "safety fuel" is a blend of added materials which raises the gasoline's flash point, i.e., the point at which it vaporizes and forms an explosively inflammable mixture with air. Ordinary high-octane gas vaporizes to this degree at temperatures as low as 40° F. below zero. The flash point of Standard's new fuel is 105° above zero. Thus at normal temperatures it gives off no inflammable vapors, is safe as kerosene...
Careful to speak before the House, so that he could not be sued for libel, Democrat Boren charged: "Two men . . . are the chief instigators of 'Swindle, Inc.' The [foremost] is a Wall Street financial agent, one Guy C. Myers, known as 'Flash' Myers to his friends back in Montana before he made a hurried exit from that state. . . . His opposite number among the holding company gang is Howard L. Aller, president of American Power & Light...
...Committee set the pattern for 'Swindle, Inc.' Aller's company received three times the rightful price. . . . Aller and his pal, Flash, are cooking up even more ambitious deals ... in Seattle, Portland, Ore., Spokane. . . . Louisville [is] listed on the bankers' books. Some of the blue chip banking outfits of the country are involved: Blyth & Co., Nuveen & Co., First Boston, Dillon, Read and others...