Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit it up in a boxcar between two coaches, and the boys & girls who were too weary to dance either necked or threw confetti out the windows on the sleeping countryside. Two hours later, as the train clattered back into Creston, past the water tower, the band broke into Auld Lang...
Father O'Connor has a good reporter's sharp eye for detail, lets the religious notes sound where they belong. In the early months of the Korean war, riding north to cover a combat jump with a Flying Boxcar of paratroopers, he heard confessions on the way to the target, blessed the men as they went out the door. "With marvelous precision," Father O'Connor ended his story, "our flight lands, each wide-winged plane seconds apart from the next on a sunny, peaceful field. We are hundreds of miles from where we saw men drop...
Author Liu and 31 others were crammed into half a boxcar, .while an established Red journalist had the other half to him self. When they complained, they were told that "suffering is the diet of the hero...
...Flying Boxcar," en route from Japan to Korea, had 44 men aboard: an Air Force crew of seven and 37 U.S. troops returning from "R & R" (rest & recreation) leave in Japan. Many of the soldiers had bought Christmas presents for their families and sweethearts...
...which the Radio Corp. of America hopes may soon revolutionize the yard techniques of U.S. railroads. Beside B. & O.'s main incoming track, RCA had set up a Vidicon camera, a new type of TV camera which RCA put on sale last week. The camera picked up the boxcar numbers, flashed them on a screen in the yard's four-story control tower. Another camera, set between the tracks (with floodlights) and aimed upward, inspected the passing cars for cracked truck frames, broken springs, missing journal-box lids, etc. Though the equipment will continue to be tested...