Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freight for war theaters are a bigger problem than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will be loaded to capacity. A hot box, or a derailment on a single track grade up from the Great Plains, will call for fast rerouting of freight flowing through the rail-terminal bottlenecks at Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans...
...heart of "Mother" Renfro was deeply touched this weekend where portly pitcher (Hutchings) was shelled from the box in the Braves-Cubs: "Ren" felt pity for this poor fat fell because his expansive midriff kept getting...
...Town. In Boston, police were left holding a bag, forgotten in a taxi by four sailors. Its contents: one dozen pickles, a jar of olives, a box of crackers, three frankfurters, a copy of Good Night, Sweet Prince, the life & loves of John Barrymore...
Beside the highway into Dachau there runs a spur line off the Munich railroad. Here a soldier stopped us and said: "I think you better take a look at these box-cars." The cars were filled with dead men. Most of them were naked. On their bony, emaciated backs and rumps were whip marks. Most of the cars were open-top cars like American coal cars. I walked along these cars and counted 39 of them which were filled with these dead. The smell was very heavy. I cannot estimate with any reasonable accuracy the number of dead...
...Pablo Giamis gave a new twist to calisthenics with the "boas hog scratch" which he says he picked up from the boys down South. The others of the "Cheshire Twins," Jack Ealsey, has paid his dues (two box tops) and is now proudly wearing his Good Sports Club pin again. A lot has happened to Blazing Jack since he crossed the Charles last November...