Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lakehurst, N. J., in the very hangar where the Shenandoah's great body used to lie at rest, a naval court of inquiry met last week to determine the cause of her destruction, to ascertain why she was rent in two in mid air, while her control car went dashing to the ground to carry to death her Commander, Zachary Lansdowne, and many of his officers and men (TIME, Sept. 14, AERONAUTICS...
George E. Brennan who took the Illinois vote east to the Democratic National Convention in Manhattan 15 months ago, last week took the Governor of New York west to Chicago. He arrived in a private car with 15 backers and carried Al Smith off for a day in Chicago and a big Democratic picnic. "We asked him to come because we liked him," said Mr. Brennan affably...
What are those blue sparks under the engine's front truck? What whistle is this that hoots in the cab? The engineer does not stir, the tipsy fireman cannot hear above his clanking rake and the ' shattering roar of the coal car. The whistle in the cab changes its note...
Still the men in the cab and coal car are oblivious. The warning whistle stops. There is a scream of airbrakes all along the train, an unseen hand shuts the steam throttle, the express comes to a grinding, jolting halt. The life it carries is safe. The conductor, trotting beside the ties to investigate, thanks his stars that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway installed its new automatic train control along that particular stretch of track...
This bagatelle, we understand, was not imposed upon the student for the trifling operation of towing the car two blocks. It was for the privilege of participating in the jest...