Dark Tide (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• Hugh Ogden: A military judge advocate in the Great War, Ogden went on to assign responsibility in the civil trail concerning the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
• Woodrow Wilson: President at the time of the flood, he was doing his utmost to promote America's membership in the League of Nations to prevent another World War at the time this story happened.
• Charles Choate: Represented the defendant in the molasses-flood case.
• Damon Hall: Represented the plaintiffs in he molasses-flood trial, which at that time was the largest class-action suit ever brought to court.
• Isaac Gonzales: Was so worried about the molasses tank overlooking the Boston waterfront that he slept by it at night to raise the larm in case the thing ripped apart while the city was sleeping.
• Giuseppe Iantosca: An impoverished Italian immigrant, married with 5 children, living in the shadow of the molasses tank.
• John Barry: In pain and disabled from his old line of work for the rest of his life after being trapped in the wreckage of the molasses flood.
• George Layhe: A firefighter trapped in the wreckage of the firehouse when the molasses tank blew.
• Bartolomeo Vanzetti: Accused of a robbery-homicide connected to his anarchist leanings, around the same time as the molasses flood..
• Nicola Sacco: Accused of a robbery-homicide connected to his anarchist political beliefs, around the same time as the molasses flood.
• Pasquale Iantosca: Was standing almost directly underneath the molasses tank when it gave way.
• Maria Distasio: A 10-year-old girl collecting firewood with some friends near the molasses tank when it gave out.
• Arthur P. Jell: A financial administrator in charge of building and overseeing the operations of the 50-foot-high tank meant to hold molasses for the company he worked for.
• Luigi Galleani: Notorious anarchist deported from the US, then arrested by the Italian fascist government when he got home.
• William White: A supervisor at the molasses-storage works.
• Mario Buda: May have orchestrated the Wall Street bombing of 1920. A close friend of Sacco and Vanzetti.

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• “Death's pall clung to the relief stations throughout the night, as the screams of dying men echoed off corridor walls stained with blood and molasses.”

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• USIA: United States Industrial Alcohol, a very busy company during the Great War years; they owned the immense storage tank filled with molasses overlooking Boston's waterfront.

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1. Stephen Puleo (Author)

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• Dewey: 363.11

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Fine for teens or adults; it might be a little slow for younger readers.

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• Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › New England
• Books › Professional & Technical › Engineering › Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems › Safety & Health
• Books › Science › Technology › Safety & Health
• Books › History › World › 20th Century

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