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ISBN: 9780060185411
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ISBN10: 0060185414
City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle
by Minutaglio, Bill A
Description
In 1947, Texas City, Texas (pop. 15,000), was experiencing boom times. The port city was a key launching point for European-bound raw materials that would make the Marshall Plan possible. Most of the exports were petrochemical-based, the products of a state that was dubbed "the chemical capital of... Expand the world." One day in early April, two ocean-going freighters holding a combined 3,000-plus tons of ammonium nitrate exploded, claiming close to 700 lives, and injuring as many as 5,000 people. People feared it was Judgment Day, a Soviet nuclear attack, or a terrorist plot.President Truman dispatched the National Guard; the New York Times sent its war correspondents; and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent in agents to investigate a possible Communist plot. After a heroic recovery and massive relief effort, the survivors filed a landmark legal claim against the United States government in a case that would lead all the way to the Supreme Court.Collapse
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