Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea where I can get some new shoes...
...cattle, oil and forest riches of landlocked Bolivia. With a 30-man entourage, Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra flew to the Bolivian town of San José de Chiquitos for a meeting with Bolivia's President Enrique Hertzog. The occasion: the opening of a Brazilian-built railroad connecting San José with Corumbá, Brazil-part of a system that will eventually stretch 2,500 miles across the continent from Santos to the Chilean port of Arica...
...Railroads. The Pennsylvania Railroad came up with a $216,700,000 improvement program, biggest in its 102-year history. On the Pennsy's shopping list are 192 new diesel engines and 395 new passenger coaches. Eventually all its through trains will have children's playrooms and movie theaters...
...Leonards treat their suppliers with the same regard as their customers. Salesmen are met at the railroad station with limousines, and office space is provided them. The store has a fleet of trucks which pick up much of the merchandise it buys-a scheme that helps to keep down costs...
...Arlington, Ohio, Railroad Telegrapher A. A. Hall threw the day's receipts into a boxcar instead of a baggage car, didn't discover his mistake until an elephant had eaten...