Word: flagman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flagman Edward J. Mulvihill tried the brake; when it failed he ordered the passengers from their berths, told them to lie flat on the floor. For 3½ miles and about five minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead...
Just after one o'clock the Advance lurched to a halt. Trainmen suspected a hot box. Diners in the next-to-last car looked idly through the windows at the frame houses of Naperville. From the 13th car, an ordinary Pullman, a flagman raced up the cinders to warn the Exposition on the wide curve behind...
...immediately began applying the air brakes," he said, "but we were going too fast, I guess. ... I passed a red board . . . still trying to bring her down. . . . Then I saw the stalled train ahead. . . . Then I saw the flagman . . . Crayton, my fireman, said 'Looks like you're going into her, Bill' . . . and jumped...
...Great Northern's west bound Empire Builder, pounding hard for lost time in North Dakota's bronzed wheat lands, ground to an emergency stop just beyond Michigan City. A few miles back, the Empire Builder's second section was coming in out of the east. A flagman ran the few hundred yards back to Michigan City to flag it, but he never made it. Section 2 hit the Michigan City curve with its exhaust drumming, plowed slam-bang into Section...
...meant, was figuratively unfortunate. The battleship has thus far proved to be the booby of this war, and Mr. Early was alluding to Winston Spencer Churchill, 67, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 60, flagships respectively of the vastest Empire and the mightiest Republic in all history. At the moment when Flagman Churchill crossed the Atlantic (not in a battleship but in an airplane) to have a long visit with Flagman Roosevelt, both the majestic Empire and the fabulous Republic were taking a hell of a licking...