Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It had been a commonplace incident in the year 1893. A young Hindu lawyer, riding the train from Durban to Pretoria, would insist on sitting in a first-class compartment. Provincial constables would restore the situation to normal by ejecting 24-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi at the next stop...
Meanwhile, Ed Barit prodded his engineers to recapture the art which had given Hudson the industry's longest list of "firsts" (e.g., first aluminum pistons, first rear luggage compartment, first steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance...
"Thank God she's alive," said Rolf Berndt when someone told him that Gitte would almost certainly have frozen to death in the unheated freight compartment of a Stratoliner. Sighed an airline official in Frankfurt: "Just say that I'd like to have some woman love me enough...
"A British correspondent traveling in the opposite direction through this territory saw half a dozen lying stabbed on the Lahore platform, slowly dying without any help being given. Later that night, on a small siding south of Amritsar, a band of Sikhs entered his compartment and before his eyes beheaded...
For months now Mr. Wilter, catering manager of the South African Railways, has searched in vain for Queen Elizabeth's galoshes. The Queen's dresser was absolutely sure she had put them in the record compartment of the royal radio gramophone. On the royal tour of South Africa...