Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, they had taken visitors to the railroad station and said: "Now just watch." At 3:35 the Chief rolled in, at 3:40 the Super-Chief, and at 3:47 El Capitan slid in off the main line. There were three famous streamliners, all emitting compressed air, Hollywood producers and blondes wearing dark glasses. But after June 2, damn-it-all, the trains would come in separately...
...Famous vacation trains, like the Cornish Riviera Express (nonstop London to Plymouth) and the Golden Arrow (London to Dover and Paris), were running again. Ex-R.A.F. pilots swarmed into the air-taxi business and got as much as ?50 ($200) for a flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government...
...representatives, the State Department switched 49-year-old William Douglas Pawley from Peru to Brazil, to fill the spot recently vacated by Adolf Berle Jr. Swashbuckling Bill Pawley* began a fabulous, up-&-down career at 18 by selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers, more recently helped organize the famous Flying Tigers. He once modestly remarked: "Unquestionably I have been one of the prime contributors to China's defense." As Ambassador to Peru he earned the respect and awe of the Bustamante Government. He, too, was the personal choice of Spruille Braden...
...with the arrival of peace Scranton's 140,000 citizens, unwilling to accept a ghost city in a deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...
Perhaps the most famous, the most popular, and the most attentively read of the Crimson's various supplements has been the Crimson's Confidential Guide for Freshmen. First compiled in 1925 by Crimson editors who had personal impressions of each course, the Confy Guide sought to draw attention to the importance of elementary courses in whetting Freshman interest for the whole Harvard curriculum. Modern technique has substituted a system of polling the preceding Yardlings for reliance on editors' private judgments alone...