Word: handcars
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Funnies. In Andover, Mass., three boys, aged 8 to 10, piled rocks on a railroad track, derailed a Boston & Maine handcar, explained they were imitating a favorite comic book villain...
...paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles...
...morning seven handcars were ready, equipped with benches holding three each and warm, brown lap blankets. Four men were assigned to each handcar as a pumping crew. A few miles from the front, at 6:30, the Japanese fired three or four shots at the tracks and officials decided not to risk Willkie's life. The party left the handcars and boarded automobiles -the Chinese had cut roads below the surface so that troops could evade Japanese eyes...
...President Cowen's inventiveness had not deserted him. In addition he was blessed with a pair of shrewd receivers named Worcester Bouck and Mandel Frankel. The receivers negotiated a bank loan. Then the company approached Walt Disney Productions of Hollywood, secured permission to make a Mickey Mouse handcar to scoot around Lionel tracks. During the winter 235,000 were sold at $1 apiece. President Cowen, nearly always one jump ahead of U. S. railroad men, streamlined his trains. At last year's Century of Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific...