Word: northbound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning last week on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just outside Grand Rapids, Mich, two special trains passed each other in opposite directions. At the end of the southbound train was the private car, David Livingstone. At the end of the northbound train was another private car, Pioneer. As the racket of passing abruptly ceased, someone on the back platform of David Livingstone raised his arm, threw something. A handful of small objects rattled on the rear platform of Pioneer. A Secret Service man snatched at one, scrutinized it suspiciously. It was a Landon campaign button...
...York State factory employment registered the widest midwinter gain since 1915-5-8%. Payrolls were up 6.2%. Reflecting the farmer's dogged determination to raise bigger crops on fewer acres, fertilizer sales for the last three months were 110% above the same period year ago. Northbound banana trains from San Francisco to Portland last year averaged 13 or 14 cars. Last week they were running more than 50 cars...
According to the new system, southbound traffic will be permitted only on the northern stretch of Massachusetts Avenue bounding the subway incline, while northbound traffic will be shifted to Peabody and Cambridge Streets...
...Chicago, a southbound elevated train hit Charles Mead, lofted him over to the northbound tracks where a northbound train lofted him back to the southbound tracks where another train lofted him off the elevated structure to the ground. His worst injury: a broken...
...Manhattan last week Subway Motorman Fred Floodgate had shut off his power and was coasting his northbound express into the West noth Street station when he caught a blurred glimpse of a slim, blonde woman poised on the edge of the platform. The next instant there was a downward flutter of a black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk...