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With a blinding flash and a sickening crash Trip 4 plowed into the rolling hillside, hard on the bank of an erosion gully. It bounced across the gully and up the hill like a tortured metal monster, strewing splintered wreckage, broken bodies, burst baggage and clothing more than 300 feet. Flames sprouted, spurted high, clearly visible in Salt Lake City's darkened business section, a few miles south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Fifth for the Wasatch | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...doing to put the German completely out of business. The German underlined the warning last week. The U.S. public got no total of his sinkings, but his attacks, by day & night, vignetted scenes of death and loss like glimpses of a vast battle seen in the lightning's flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Catalina to the Rescue | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...three of the visitors have good teams, the Islanders' squad featured by Jack Kreuger, a powerful shot-putter and field events flash, while Mike Prodhodsky leads the Huskies. Prodhodsky will be running both the mile and the half-mile tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Trackmen Face Three Teams | 4/24/1942 | See Source »

...lull clouds gathered. War machines were cranking up. Great events would come, must come, cataclysm on cataclysm. The nation's armies and armaments grew like thunderheads; some day soon they must burst with a great explosive flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before the Storm | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...conferred urgently in London, British officials in Washington; even now they might be planning the second front that Joseph Stalin has pleaded for. If they were, they were certainly not broadcasting their plans. Another A.E.F. was in Australia; a Pacific War Council met regularly in Washington; the first lightning flash might come from the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before the Storm | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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