Rough Notes, May 1st, 2000
Dateline: early 1960s. Location: telephone company office on Manhattan Island. Time: noon hour. Without any advance warning, a 40-foot-long boiler tears loose from its bolt in the cement, blasts through a reinforced concrete wall and travels 400 feet though the office, plowing through six banks of file cabinets. It is believed that a valve manufactured in Fort Wayne, Indiana, had malfunctioned, turning the low-pressure boiler into a very "high pressure" boiler that exploded. Welcome to the world of boiler and machinery damage insurance!
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