Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swift Completion. In Washington, the Interior Department mailed a penny postcard to a man in nonexistent "Harrisia," N.J., got it back 56 years later. In Yonkers, N.Y., repairmen found a bundle of postmarked, undelivered letters in the railroad station, turned them over to the postoffice for delivery-17 years after they were mailed...
...U.S.S.R. changed its mind? The reason seemed to be that the Russians, after feverishly dismantling the German factories and starting to carry them off, had not been able to put them together again. "Many parts of German factories," said Dulles, "are rusting on the railroad sidings between Berlin and Moscow." Soviet economic needs were so great that they were willing to take risks. Furthermore, with Communism now strong in most of Europe, the Kremlin has little fear of a regenerated Germany...
Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on the adjoining track. The steel nicked the engine, scraped three mail and baggage cars, then slashed murderously into the side of a coach. Sleeping passengers were hurled, dazed and bleeding, into the aisle. Another plate toppled over to the opposite track into the path of an eastbound freight, derailed...
...Wallace Woodworth '24 will lead the chorus through a variety of offerings, covering the whole scope of the year's Glee Club activities, which may range from sixteenth century motifs to modern pieces in the lighter vein. "Casey Jones," familiar American railroad ballad, and "Spanish Ladies," a rollicking arrangement of an English sea chantey, will highlight the latter category...
...Friday night on the long journey to Ithaca for an Ivy League game with Cornell Saturday afternoon, never left home. After telegraphic communication revealed that playing conditions were sloppy in Ithaca. the contest was postponed because of wet grounds, and Coach Adolph Samborski's 17-man squad eschewed the railroad trip...