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Word: machoness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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...night last week the British-operated Ferrocarril Mexicano's night train from the port of Veracruz to Mexico City took on an oil-burning locomotive at Paso del Macho, began to wind its slow way through the rugged uplands toward the 7,400-ft.-high capital. When the train had rumbled half way across Paso Grande Bridge a dynamite explosion slapped the locomotive and tender against the bank of a 40-ft. ravine, tumbled two wooden sleeping cars to the ravine's bottom. Oil from a tank caught fire and flames engulfed the wreckage. A man pinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bomb at Bridge | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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