Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States Marine Band went to Grand Rapids, Mich., to play at the five-day annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Of the 43 surviving Union veterans of the Civil War, only six were on hand to hear the band this year. The oldest was 107; the youngest...
Thousands of men & women poured into New York's Grand Central Station last week to see the newest mechanical marvel of the world's most mechanical nation-the "wholly new" Twentieth Century Limited. The New York Central's publicity handouts had described the new Century as "the most modern and luxurious train in all railroading history." This turned out to be something of an overstatement...
...Male Teat. Few of Grand Central's sightseers were inclined to carp. To them, the Century's elegances were a glimpse of unknown comfort, a far cry from the jolting realities of everyday railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful...
...certain that [the packers] will be completely exonerated when all the facts are presented." The packers thought that Clark would have trouble making his charges stick. Eleven times in 50 years the Government had sued the big packers; it had won only twice. A year ago a federal grand jury in Chicago failed to indict the packers on an antitrust conspiracy after an investigation requested by Clark...
Died. Dame Lilian Braithwaite, D.B.E., seventyish, tart-tongued grand old lady of the English stage (The Vortex, Arsenic and Old Lace); of a heart ailment; in London...