Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would the people of the country from which he comes think and say if one of our labor leaders went over there and openly attacked the Governor of a State or, for that matter, the President? They'd be apt to take him for a ride on a rail. "Mr. Martin is riding about in a private plane while the people he claims to represent are walking the streets. That shows what kind of a man he is." Meanwhile at Oshawa matters proceeded with Anglican decorum. In Toronto the Premier assembled provincial police and "Mounties" to be sent...
...nature is Angler Heilner's province. He has worked for the American Museum of Natural History; indeed it was while investigating a new finch, a rail and a wren for them that he discovered for sportsmen the tarpon of Cuba, in the Encantado (Enchanted) River. His fishing lexicon is shot richly through with biological side glances. It is interesting to know that the jutla (arboreal rat) of Cuba is that island's only native mammal, discovered by Columbus; that the weakfish which spawn in Peconic Bay do so without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north...
...Italy, by right of conquest. Another 20% belongs to Italy undisputed, dating from the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935). The French are the largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere to own stock control of this 494 miles of rail, linking Addis Ababa with the French port of Djibouti. Last week, according to the French, Il Duce had forced the road into a deficit for the first time in 14 years by ordering Viceroy Graziani last year to "ship nothing by rail on which freight has to be paid," using motor...
Reputedly Ambassador Davies believes the Old Bolshevik trials have been "on the level." Certainly it would be undiplomatic for him to believe otherwise. Correspondents who accompanied him on his recent Russian industrial tour by private train - (TIME, March 15) paid their rail fare at the Embassy before leaving Moscow and only four went. They were surprised and delighted to be handed back their money afterward, assured that they had been the Ambassador's "personal guests." Before leaving Moscow last week, Mr. Davies predicted a rapid rise in U. S. exports to the U. S. S. R., based this...
...Francisco Examiner (morning Hearst-paper) was checking his shutter adjustment, squinting at the cloud-scudded sky, gazing with concern at the second launch below the bridge. The man in the helmet stood on the running board, slipped out of his topcoat, stepped quickly over the guard rail, facing inward at the bridge. He glanced upward to the cameraman above him, then down to the water 185 feet below. He choked his breath halfway in his throat and, in the instant, jumped backwards into space...