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...quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their burning hair and clothes. Mrs. Latone, aflame from head to foot, leaped into the river, sank and was drowned. Then came a second blast. The shower of burning celluloid thickened into a roll of flame, set nine buildings alight. Perilous live electric wires fell from their poles into the confusion. Squads of firemen had first to clear the streets of scorched and unconscious victims. In one house they...
...centuries, the King of Portugal hit on a solution-he would send the rhino to the Pope. Happily he clapped the brute on a vessel bound for Rome. But en route the rhino, disdainful of King & Pope, provided its own denouement. Running amok, it battered through the hull, sank the ship...
Submarine F-4 sank in the open ocean off Honolulu with all hands in March 1915, and was finally located in 304 ft. of water. Lieut.-Commander (now Captain) J. A. Furer. U. S. N., was placed in charge of the salvage operations, and designed all the equipment used for the work. He invented the submersible pontoons which were used in the final operations of bringing this submarine to the surface. The identical pontoons built for this job were also used on the S-51 and the 54, and the technique developed in raising the F-4 was used throughout...
...needs. On the fifth day he got his second wind at starving: his system had temporarily given up hope for food. Vichy water had stopped the nausea. By day Gandhi basked in the sun; by night he stared at the stars from Lady Thackersey's veranda. His eyes sank further into his head, his collarbone stuck out like a harness. But as he began the second week of his fast he was cheerful. His wife, released from jail, was with him. His son Harilal (eldest of four) came to make his filial peace after a twelve-year estrangement. Father...
...place-hunters. A majority are men of onetime President William T. Cosgrave's Opposition which holds that Ireland cannot support itself free of Britain. Satisfied with the Free State where it stands, they say, "No further." When the oath abolition bill reached them a twelve-month ago they sank it with an amendment requiring British approval. Eamon de Yalera went to the people and asked them to jam the lower house (Dail) with his men. They did, last January. The new Dail repassed the bill in its original form in March. By the Irish Constitution it then became...