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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780807050217
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was
playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous
crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a
runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A
third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window-“Oh
my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!”
A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of
molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its
contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset
traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the
brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It
would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was
responsible for the disaster.
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