U.S.A. Had Year Of Heaviest Fire Losses
Recd. 6.55 p.m. New York, Dec. 27. Headed by the huge toll of the Texas City explosion last April, fire and related disasters cost the United States almost 700,000,000 dollars this year, says the National Board of Fire Underwriters, in a report issued today. This was a record for the United States. It is not only the highest peacetime loss to any nation, but exceeded by approximately 300,000.000 dollars the property damage suffered by Britain in two years of German blitz.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 29 December 1947, Page 5
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