Yup. My grandfather worked for a while in Newark. He remembered when it went up. Said it was loud as hell.
My grandfather would later serve as a sergeant in the US Army with a unit that used poison gas. He was wounded by the filthy stuff in the Meuse- Argonne in 1918.
29 posted on 02/04/2023 3:30:20 PM PST by jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )