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When Saving Cash Cost Lives: The 1937 New London School Explosion
On a normal spring afternoon, students and teachers were about to wrap up their day at the newly built, cash?rich Consolidated School in East Texas. But a leak—literally undetectable odorless natural gas seeping into the basement—turned routine into tragic. At 3:17?pm, when a wood?shop teacher flipped on an electric sander, a spark ignited the gas,…