Congressional and military spectators assembled on the army proving grounds here yesterday to watch Mr. Lester P. Barlow detonate a 1,000- pound liquid oxygen bomb—the "most powerful explosive in the world"—to illustrate the strength of his invention.
Tethered at various distances from each other over a 1,000-foot radius from the bomb, were 84 goats, with whose sudden death Mr. Barlow hoped to demonstrate the deadliness of his new explosive, When the smoke cleared away after the detonation, the 84 goats, startled but uninjured, were revealed still at the end of their tethers.
Said Mr. Barlow, "I was the goat!"—United Press.
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