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Joseph Henry Harley had traveled thousands of miles in his 32 years with the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, but he never left the bustling gloom of the Crewe railway yard near Liverpool. He was just a cog in its sprawling machine, driving a dumpy, asthmatic shunting engine back & forth, day after day. He never married, he never made many friends, he never talked much. He just watched the majestic trains passing him from places he had never seen, bound for places he would never know...
...glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
...years ago railway police began to notice that more & more big locomotives were having accidents at the Crewe yard. A check of timecards showed Harley had been on duty whenever an accident occurred...
...HARLEY Oskaloosa, Iowa...
...Senator Harley M. Kilgore, sweating and aggressive, paraded official witnesses before his subcommittee on war mobilization. His aim was to compile information for anti-cartel legislation. What emerged was proof that industrial Germany had been neither defeated nor destroyed, and that only a strong Allied policy could keep down the German will...