Word: boxcars
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...Cleaned up twelve juvenile gangs, adding to Junior Deputy ranks many a kid who was breaking boxcar seals, stealing motorcycles, robbing service stations...
...never has been licked: the one-ton jeep locomotives have no effective brakes. Pushed by a weight many times greater than its own, one jeep plowed into a bullock standing listlessly on the tracks, was telescoped into junk by the cars behind and tossed up on top of a boxcar. So far, ten jeeps have been wrecked. Drivers have escaped injury by leaping clear...
...carefully considered estimate of postwar U.S. income, in an attempt to clear up the confusion. Net result was to add to the confusion, by stirring up a first-class row among economists. For one thing, the Brookings estimate was $123 billion, substantially lower than the most popular $140 billion boxcar figure which businessmen roll off their tongues. But the Brookings Institution then went on, in a brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits and dunderheads. The distinguished list of numbskulls obviously included the Committee for Economic Development...
...taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train. In sportsmanlike fashion, Whitney started a poker game in the boxcar, lost consistently. Jock said that he had such a good time he nearly forgot to escape...
...riding on the roof of a boxcar that night. It was raining. Refugees were so thick you couldn't move. You know, one of those woman refugees, she had a baby that night, right there on top of the car. About an hour after it was born she had a fever of 101 degrees, the baby had 103. There was a Chinese Red Cross man with us. So we broke open my army first-aid kit and I took out my sulfanilamide. The Red Cross man broke one of the tablets into six little pieces and fed them...