Word: northbound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police were especially chagrined last week, when, from under their very noses, bandits got away with $1,890,000 in gold, the largest haul in French criminal history. The gold, being shipped to a Belgian smelting plant from the Belgian Congo, was unceremoniously stowed aboard an ordinary freight train northbound from Marseille one night last week. Few miles outside the city, the train's emergency brakes were jammed on. As trainmen and guards swung down to investigate, six masked men whooped out from the trackside, fired shots in the air and forced their way into the gold...
Julius Caesar (by William Shakespeare; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Manhattan's intimate Comedy Theatre once echoed to Holbrook Blinn's The Bad Man, staged Katharine Cornell's debut (1916), played host to the theatre's great until northbound Broadway moved on and left it to amateurs, foreign language mummers. Last week Orson Welles and John Houseman reclaimed it as the Mercury Theatre, and the change meant more than a new sign over the marquee. It meant a new. vitalizing experiment in drama...
...Sikorsky 543 transport of Pan-American-Grace Airways, carrying n passengers and crew of three from Santiago, Chile, radioed it was circling in a rainstorm over the field at Cristobal, C. Z., where it was scheduled to transfer its passengers to a northbound Pan-American Clipper. No more was heard from the Sikorsky. Next day its wreckage was found 20 mi. west of Cristobal, all on board presumably lost...
Officials at Newark Airport were informed one night by their Baltimore dispatcher that Wallace Groves on the northbound Florida plane was in danger of being shot when he alighted at Newark...
Reading Eugene Armfield's Where the Weak Grow Strong is like trying to carry too many bundles at one time, dropping several whenever you pick up one. It begins on a July morning of 1912, when the northbound flyer whistles for Tuttle, N. C. (pop. 5,000), a dead town that contains a chair factory, a textile mill, an undue proportion of neurotic inhabitants. The whistle makes a baby cry, gives a little girl a nightmare, disturbs a dying man, awakens a bridegroom, arouses a bride. Thereafter for 395 pages, as exhaustively as a census taker, Author Armfield moves...