Word: minaki
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...Andrew's College, Minaki MARTAN HGALOMBA I Dar es am now Salaam, back at Tanganyika school. During my holi Salted Formula Sir: The unfortunate death of the infants in Binghamton Hospital [March 23!, who were fed a formula with salt instead of sugar, shows the need for new nursing routines...
...some 800 passengers on the westbound Minaki Special, it was summer's end; from camps and lodges of the Lake of the Woods country, they were heading for Winnipeg and home. On red and green plush seats, fathers, mothers and children drowsed, while the 13-car special, behind schedule, pounded along...
...Minaki Special bore straight down the main line. On No. 4, Engineer Gibson and Fireman Hazen Lawrie saw its headlight. They waited a moment, thinking it would stop and go into the siding, as it was supposed to do. But it sped past the switch. As they jumped, they heard the shriek of brakes...
Nobody had a full explanation for western Canada's worst train wreck.* A preliminary report, from Ottawa's Transport Board, said that No. 4 had the right of way, that the Minaki Special had come into Dugald too fast. But no one explained why Canadian railroads are still using old gaslit, wooden hand-me-downs...
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