Shortly before 9 o'clock one morning last week, a 16-ton truck & trailer rig turned off a Jersey City street and rolled ponderously into the tube of the Holland Tunnel, bound for Manhattan. Nobody gave it a second glancetrucks, cars, cabs and buses had been rumbling through the tunnel, day & night, for 22 years (15.6 million passed through in 1948), and the rubber-tired monster looked as harmless and submissive as a sheep in a stockyard runway.
But it carried a fearsome cargoeighty 55-gallon drums of carbon disulphide, a poisonous and volatile chemical...
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