Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announced Chairman Harry Guy Taylor of the Western Association of Railway Executives: "Not a single passenger was killed in an accident on a train during 1935. . . . This is the first time the railroads have achieved a perfect record."
Cattle-road was Bellevue & Cascade of Iowa which operated, intermittently, 35.7 miles of track. Bellevue & Cascade had only one locomotive, a 50-year-oldster whose axle broke in 1934. Since that accident, claimed angry farmers, the train jumped the track so often and killed so many cattle that no farmer...
Sex, nevertheless, rates a chapter by itself. "Everywhere under the seemingly placid surface of business," observes Mrs. MacGibbon, "there is the undercurrent of sex, upsetting, repelling, attracting individuals whose lives would never have crossed but for the accident of close-range employment. But the day's work must be...
The plots of neither of these pictures are new. In the former, the weak man turns he-devil half by accident and regains the stolen bonds and wins the girl. In the latter, the tramp becomes bank president and is threatened with exposure and has to live it down to...
At an altitude of nearly 20,000 feet, 3000 feet below the summit, the accident occurred. Despite the attempt of his interpreter and two guides to carry him down the mountain, he died at an altitude of 18,000 feet.