Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take a dentist's drill, a meat grinder . . . Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. Make locomotives crash into one another . . . Explode steam boilers to make railroad mist. Take petticoats and the like, shoes and false hair, also ice skates...
...Louis' grand old railroad station is spectacularly reborn, thanks to a successful federal tax-credit...
Unfortunately, not all Argentines were so enthusiastic. Several labor leaders charged that the wage freeze hurts their members, and one union official openly threatened to sabotage the economic plan. "We have no choice but to take some kind of action," said Raul Ravitti, the secretary of the railroad union. That attitude has blocked attempts to halt inflation in Argentina for years...
...also the perverted emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music...
...invention of wireless a few years earlier. I entered the world just before Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo, triggering the Guns of August. The Model T Ford was slowly replacing the horse and electric refrigeration and oil heat were unknown in the household. The New York Central Railroad ran from New York to Albany and the Boston & Maine from Boston to Lowell in less time than they take...