Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commerce plans to test a pair of turbotrains between Boston and Providence starting next January, Canadian National will be the first road to put them into regular service. To be built by United Aircraft's Canadian subsidiary and the Montreal Locomotive Works, the first of the seven-car turbotrains should be on the tracks in time for Canada's Centennial next April...
...that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved rights-of-way using continuously welded track...
...Train, the escape is initially from invading Nazis. A diffident, dutiful French shopkeeper hustles his pregnant wife and daughter into the first-class carriage of a refugee train, himself crawls into an overcrowded freight car, and settles down contentedly to escape his dull, daily round. Contentment is compounded when a forlorn Jewish girl beds down with him. When his family gets lost in the wartime shuffle, the lovers happily play house in a refugee reception center until the missing wife and child are found. Then the lovers part. Many months later, fleeing the Gestapo, the girl timidly hunts...
Because of this tradition of discrimination, Hudgins says, a Negro who hesitates to approach a white bank feels that his financial problems will be heard with a more sympathetic car at Freedom National Bank. He cities the bank's attractions: its staff is 98 per cent Negro; the bank is located in the heart of Harlem, on 125th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues; its trademark is made up of an F for Freedom and an equals sign. And 30 per cent of the bank's $5 million in loans goes for first mortgages, a particularly difficult kind of loan...
...witness reported that Hunkeler was heading toward Lars Anderson Bridge in the right lane of Memorial drive when a car in the left lane swerved, forcing the motorcycle against the curb. Hunkeler and his passenger, Enic Fallick, were both thrown about fifty feet and landed on the sidewalk in front of the Winthrop House courtyard...