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...train carried enough technical gear to stock a sophisticated physics laboratory. To test how the jolts, noises and vibrations of railroad travel will affect the warheaded Minuteman, sensitive oscilloscopes and oscillographs registered every rock and wriggle. Loudspeakers and telephones linked the communications HQ with the other ten cars (one boxcar that housed a jeep, two tank cars for water and diesel fuel, seven air-conditioned "quarters cars"-including one with stereo set, radio, TV). When the train stopped, crewmen stepped out and limbered up, but could wander no farther than 150 yards-earshot range. A sharp command from the single...
...regiment entrained for Florida, and Post caught his first glimpse of Teddy Roosevelt grinning from a boxcar door. T.R.'s uniform "looked as if he had slept in it-as it always did." For T.R.'s "personal press agent," famed Reporter Richard Harding Davis, Post conceived an immediate and lasting dislike: "Richard Harding Davis was busy conning his Social Register and keeping himself and his silk undies in perfect condition for the rigors of the coming campaign." In Florida, the men got an issue of .45-caliber training ammunition, which "could, properly directed, knock down...
Young Gavin often peeked around a boxcar for a glimpse of the old man ("nobody dared come into his presence uninvited"), rose through station agent to division superintendent at Spokane in 1916, the year Jim Hill died. Gavin kept on climbing, was made president in 1939, brought the Great Northern successfully through the trying days of World War II, afterwards was one of the first Western railroad men to modernize. In 1951 Gavin stepped out of the presidency and up to chairman of the board, the title previously held only by Hill and his son, Louis Hill. Until he broke...
Monitors. In Jacksonville, Fla., three men broke into a railroad boxcar, stole five television sets and a case of coffee...
Dividends Plus Brainwashing. Kinmond asked straight-from-the-shoulder questions and often got surprisingly frank replies from English-speaking guides and government officials. Once, spotting a boxcar loaded with ragged Chinese under the supervision of a burpgun-toting guard, he asked what they were. Answer: slave laborers. On another occasion he asked a Chinese official whether the government's campaign to "remold" recalcitrant citizens consisted of brainwashing. "That is what it is," replied the official. "We need to wash our faces every day, why shouldn't our brains be washed, to adjust to changes in the world...