Word: boxcars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what will the country offer Henry?" While awaiting the answer, someone babbled "There's family cheer in Hires Root Beer" and the band played You Are My Sunshine. There was just one thing wrong with Henry's story: he had gotten his injury by tumbling off a boxcar while watching a crap game...
Doris Duke Cromwell finally went to Reno-for relief from taxes, and a divorce "perhaps later on" from James H. R. (short-time Minister to Canada), who has rarely seen her in recent years. Three saddle horses, a shepherd dog and an automobile went along in a boxcar de luxe. Because Nevada levies no inheritance taxes, and few others that would affect her, the heiress planned to settle there. Still in the courts in New Jersey is a tax suit against...
Controlling the flying boxcar on the end of the tow cable is not easy. Our pilot worked hard at it, carefully keeping us above the tow plane and out of its jolting prop-wash. He gripped the control wheel tightly, several times took one hand off to stretch his cramped fingers...
Thousands of his craft are already in service, from two-seater trainers to troop carriers. Standard CG-4A glider, worked out by the Army and Waco Aircraft, is a burly, 3,600-lb. flying boxcar that carries 15 men, or an armed jeep, or a 105-mm. howitzer to battle. Three can be towed by a single C-47 (military DC-3) transport...
...soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks and light tanks. It looks like a boxcar that insists on flying...