DISASTER: Pluperfect Hell
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In New York, the president of one of the refining companies promptly announced that his firm would rebuild on the same spot, because Texas City was too well located to be killed by a single disaster. But others standing on the football field in the chill evening, at the mass funeral service, were not so sure about Texas City's tomorrows. The false sunset from the waterfront still rouged their set faces. And in the ruined center of town, the big clock on the Magnolia garage was still stopped dead at 9:13.
* The slips were parking tags from the nearby Port Arthur police department, and bore the sentence: "You have violated a traffic law."
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