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...storm swirled across the countryside in a path 300 yards wide, leveling trees, houses and fences as if an army of bulldozers had streaked through the valley. At Boothsville, the tornado uprooted a new $250,000 pumping station, and slammed it against a hillside. An 80-lb. wrench lit in a field a half-mile away. Rescue workers counted 58 dead from the "Shinnston Tornado," worst in West Virginia's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: They Hoped for a Storm | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Olson & (Chic) Johnson, hellza-poppers, told United Press Hollywood correspondent Frederick Othman that their monkey-wrench minds were already at work on the sets of their new snow: Jerks Berserk. Some of their newest secret weapons: eight seats in the third row which drop customers into the cellar, hot-water drinking fountains, dachshunds coached to steal the shoes of foot-easing women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Eleven fighting Frenchmen from the battleship Richelieu invaded Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon to wrench a soccer decision from Coach Jack MacDonald's men, 3 to 1. In the earlier Jayvee game, the B team beat Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICHELIEUMEN BEAT BOOTERS | 10/12/1943 | See Source »

...municipal docks, and he moored completed hulls there. When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated had never touched furnaces before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Rise of Consolidated | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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