Word: depots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the AffonsoArinos school at Bello-Horizonte, some 300 miles across the steep slopes of the Serra da Mantiqueira range from Rio de Janeiro, last week a boisterous troop of boys raced for the depot of the Central do Brazil railway. They clambered into the nine creaking wooden coaches and snuggled down for the ecstatic ride home for Christmas. Winding south, the train picked up more passengers including laborers on their way to São Paulo farms...
...longer a union man, to porters, pitchers, ticket collectors, out-goods and cartage men everywhere he traveled he was a sort of hot supercargo, a one-man affront to the cherished principle of "complete membership" (closed shop). At Euston and St. Pancras 800 men stopped work. To Camden Town Depot, to the Smithfield Markets the stoppage spread. Soon 4,000 workers were clamoring for Gwilliams' buttons...
...lifetime social worker, who wants the Roosevelt Administration to succeed so that his plan for permanent work relief may be established. Last week he was able to deny righteously that some paper bags marked "Donated by a friend of Senator Alben W. Barkley" and given away near a WPA depot in Kentucky, were a campaign come-on fostered by WPA. Also he could deny any great consequences issuing from his most publicized political acts so far this year: plumping for Otha D. Wearin's nomination for the Senate in Iowa, and whitewashing the WPA as a whole in Kentucky...
...once been interrupted when he was just on the point of raising an Indian from the dead, which gave him a useful reputation. He got to know the Indians in the village: the master of a pump station which pumped water through the jungle to a railroad depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez; the Garcia family-old Garcia with a silky beard and a taste for music, his young wife, his eldest son, Manuel, home on a holiday from the Texas oil fields, his youngest...
...military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned the neighborhood of the station into an inferno...