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...passenger train lumbered past. The driver put the bus in gear, started across the tracks. Those who were still looking out the windows had one short moment of agony. An express train shrieked out from behind the passenger cars, dove into the bus, splintered its thick body like a fruit crate. The wreckage stopped 160 yds. away. The driver and nine of the ten children were killed...
...Sodom, so wicked that the Lord rained brimstone and fire upon it, was thought found by Father Mallon of the Pontifical Bible Institute of Jerusalem, on the plains of Jordan. A few vases, flint instruments, broken pottery, the ruins of an ancient wall were found, all covered with a thick layer of ashes. The evidence pointed to inhabitancy during the Bronze...
...Norwegian six times. Her father, William Henie, runs a trade in women's wear that has been in the Henie family for 100 years. His store on the Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive, the most profitable in Oslo. As a boy he liked to ride bicycles, and won the world's amateur championship at Antwerp in 1893. Pleased that his little girl had inherited a snub nose from her Irish grandmother, he taught her to skate when...
...plane got as far as St. Ignace. Mich.; two more got to Munising. Next day they straggled through snow storms to Minot, N. Dak., then to Great Falls, Mont. From Spokane, their terminal, they received bleak news. Weather there had inopportunely moderated. The ski-shod planes needed snow or thick ice for landing. Spokane had neither, temporarily, last week. Major Ralph Royce, leader of the patrol, declared the flight probably the most difficult and hazardous undertaken by a peacetime Army squadron...
...thick and fast they came at last...