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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumanian railways are mostly single-track. As the Orient approached the tiny station of Recea so did a local express train. Head on they crashed, directly in front of the station. One reeling locomotive toppled to right, the other to left. Thirty passengers and both engineers were instantly killed. Among the wounded was the Wahl Eversharp Pencil Co.'s foreign sales manager, Mr. Alexander Herschler of Rochester...
...wretched Recea switchman, who should have sidetracked the local-express to let the Orient pass, promptly took to the woods. So did the rest of the Recea station crew, after locking up their station. Seemingly they thought that when the hand of the Rumanian Justice fell it would be merciless, perhaps indiscriminate...
...party of Rumanian cadets had been on the local-express. They burst in the station door. One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help. Within half an hour a wrecking train had steamed up. Meanwhile cadets worked mightily to extract wounded passengers from crumpled wooden cars, some of which had begun to burn...
Abysmally ignorant U. S. news organs told that the train wrecked was the Simplon-Orient Express. The distinction, nice, between the Orient and the Simplon-Orient is that although both run Balkan-ward from Paris through the Swiss Simplon Tunnel, the Orient later branches off to Bucharest, and the Simplon-Orient to Constantinople...
Airways. The Western Air Express, Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America! and Universal Airways, Inc. President, Harris M. Hanshue; chairman of the board, James A. Talbot; designer and technician, Anthony H. G. Fokker. Capital involved: $15,000,000. Plans: 39-hour schedule between New York and Pacific Coast; 25-hour schedule between Pacific Coast and Hawaii...