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Worst U.S. industrial tragedy all but forgotten

Worst U.S. industrial tragedy all but forgotten
"In a blast so ferocious it knocked airplanes from the skies and rattled buildings hundreds of miles away, the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate, exploded on April 16, 1947, while docked at Texas City on the Galveston Bay 40 miles south of Houston."

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