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...series of explosions not only destroyed four spherical tanks, each holding at least 420,000 gal. of liquefied gas, but also sent enormous steel shards spearing into houses. Then came several more blasts as 48 smaller containers exploded. One 50-ft.-long propane cylinder soared through the air and crushed a house half a mile away. In all, more than 30 acres of working-class housing were destroyed, another 30 heavily damaged...
...name refers to Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung KGaA, a Düsseldorf-based firm that is one of the world's largest industrial holding companies. A $3.4 billion concern, Flick has substantial interests in steel, chemicals and banking. It is now run by Friedrich Karl Flick, 57, the youngest and only living son of Friedrich Flick, who began the business...
...biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned antisuffragist who easily alternated between exposés of the Beef Trust and fawning profiles of historical heroes (Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln) and even corporate chieftains (U.S. Steel's Elbert Gary, General Electric's Owen Young). With Tarbell-like thoroughness, Brady describes a defiantly single woman wasting her talent on hasty magazine articles and much of her life in platonic friendships with adoring male colleagues. Until her death in 1944 at 86, Tarbell suffered persistent feelings...
Fortunately, comics were spinning off characters long before T.V. and movies, and Supergirl, who actually dates back to the 1950s, must have seemed like the perfect candidate for celluloid incarnation. Reeve, who has elsewhere proven that he can act as easily as bend steel bars, would certainly have demanded a salary several orders of magnitude greater than the cost of a nubile unknown. A second coast-to-coast star search would generate gobs of favorable publicity. And the same people who enjoyed watching Charlie's Angels or Linda Carter bounce around as Wonder Woman are a sure...
...first hall of "Superman The Movie" was devoted to establishing the origins of the Man of Steel "Supergirl" does the same in 15 minutes. Argo City, a surviving Kryptonian colony in "inner space," depends on the omegahedron for its energy. Chief Scientist Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) steals the magic ball, Supergirl loses it, and then steals Zaltar's ship to find it. Arriving on earth in full costume, she starts hunting for the MacGuffin (Alfred Hitchcock's) word for the jewel/microfilm/painting/whatever that everyone is hunting for in a typical thriller...