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...Union Pacific; Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Illinois Central; Santa Fe; Burlington; Rock Island; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee...
Grey-haired Martin D. Wilson, a conductor on the Burlington, off duty, was motoring home alone with two geese, two turkeys, two hams last December. At a Richland, Neb. grade crossing he was surprised by a Union Pacific express. Pulling diagonally across the tracks, Conductor Wilson caught his left front wheel between rails, stalled, leaped out, fled. He was safe when the train, doing 70, smacked the auto and left the rails, derailing eight cars, tearing up 300 feet of track, killing the engineer and fireman...
...Burlington...
Perennial butt of many a rebel British artist are the tidy, exclusive shows of the Royal Academy at London's Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never done-made an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant...
...Burlington, Iowa...