Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Live & Learn. In Clinton, Tenn., Locomotive Engineer D. C. Yarnell went motoring in his new car, failed to look sharp enough at a railroad crossing, got himself banged up, his car demolished...
While the orchestra at Lahore's Falett's Hotel played quietly for dancing, European guests drank cocktails on the moonlit terrace. Beyond earshot of the music, whole blocks of buildings lay gutted. Streets were bare and silent. Over the deserted railroad station the smell of corpses hung...
...rioting was breaking down railroad traffic between parts of India and Pakistan. Unless it was soon restored, both nations, especially Pakistan, would be economically crippled. Fearing that the Punjab rioting would spread, millions of Hindus and Moslems prepared to cross borders in a transfer of population greater than Europe had ever seen...
Died. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton Vanderbilt, 50, second wife* of the late William K. Vanderbilt II (former president of the New York Central Railroad and brother of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, onetime Duchess of Marlborough); after long illness; in Northport...
Nursery Rhymes. After the concert, in the Harris' neat, flower-print-curtained apartment in Chicago's South Side Negro district, Margaret couldn't decide what to do next. She tried playing ball with her father, a railroad machinist; then she went to work on some gum, and showed reporters her dolls. Said she, eyes wide: "There were an awful lot of people there, and at first I was afraid. But I just went over to my piano, and then I wasn't afraid any more." How did it feel when the audience clapped? "Felt good-real...