Word: tornado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electricity, and 75,000 volts, 37 times as powerful as prison executioners use in electric chairs, poured through him. Electric chairs use five amperes of electricity, X-ray machines only one-tenth of an ampere, and although that small unit rushed through him like straws blown by a tornado, sturdy Frank Brown had strength enough to haul his stiffened left hand away from the X-ray tube to tug at his right hand frozen to the metal. The current gripped his right hand also. Both hands began to burn and stink...
While the consuls were busy cabling home for instructions, Commissioner McNutt sent another tornado of excitement blowing through the bars at the Army & Navy and Elks Clubs (Manila's best) by transmitting a second message to the consulates. At future consular dinners let the first toast be drunk to the head of the host's State. Let the second salute Franklin D. Roosevelt, the third his emissary in the Philippines, Paul V. McNutt. The fourth salute should honor President Quezon. The irregular practice of toasting Senor Quezon before Mr. McNutt would have to stop...
...color spread unprecedented in a 10? magazine, LIFE gave its readers three pages of prints from the work of Kansas' John Steuart Curry. In brilliant, accurate reproduction were seen the famed U. S. artist's Line Storm, bad weather brooding on a wide Western landscape; Tornado Over Kansas, in which a family tumble into their storm cellar; Sanctuary, which shows farm animals huddling from a flood on an islet; and two of Mr. Curry's celebrated circus paintings: Elephants and The Flying Codonas...
...eventual result remained anyone's guess. The almost identical situation in San Francisco two years ago was a tense calm for two months before the tornado of the general strike. Last week, many a Russian Hill housewife began stocking canned food in readiness for another general strike, but Trouble-Shooters McGrady and Hamlet loudly proclaimed that negotiations would yet succeed. President Roosevelt kept mum, but Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins left a train at Buffalo to telephone a trite request for more negotiation. The unions agreed. The shipowners refused...
...fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing the two volunteers limb from limb. This was immediately followed by a dull, heavy roar as one wall of the church collapsed inward in a tornado of dust and pulverized masonry, bringing the roof partly down. Some of the defenders were miraculously unhurt, but all those living were captured...