No, really. I'm sitting here reading about the Bath School disaster: Bath School disaster and I discover that the building was rigged with a bunch of dynamite and something called "pyrotol." I'd never heard of the latter, so I Wikipedia rabbit holed that too: Pyrotol Apparently, the US had so much of this stuff left over from World War I that, for a time, DuPont was literally giving it away. Anyone could write to them and receive as much pyrotol as they wanted. All they had to do was pay for packaging and shipping - the explosive itself was free. Granted, your neighbors would notice if you came home with a Model T full of pyrotol every single day. There was probably some fed somewhere who might get a call from DuPont if you went too nuts. (Maybe? The FBI existed, but the ATF wasn't founded until 1972.) But if you bought what your fellow farmers thought was a "normal" amount at "normal" intervals? Nah. And "normal" seems to have been a lot of pyrotol. In the transcript from the Bath…
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