Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leopards, lions, jackals and wolves, had been punctured by the proboscises of poisonous flies and mosquitoes, had been stripped of valuables by Banda Negroes and finally had been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa's new Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe...
...rear. In front their teacher sat beside Driver Percy Line. The pupils were singing school songs so loudly that the driver could not hear well, and outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail-road crossing, equipped with bell and safety signals, at exactly the same second that a B. & O. locomotive started to take the same crossing at top speed...
...designer named S. Valdner built a model of a two-car streamlined train to run on an overhead single-rail track. The cars are carried on each side of a stout frame which holds the rail at its centre. Designer Valdner affirmed that two big propellers, each powered by a 530-h.p. Diesel engine, would drive his contraption 185 m.p.h...
...mile trip from Yokohama to Tokyo a Japanese soldier stood beside the railway track every 60 feet, rigid at attention as the young man who was once plain Mr. Henry Pu Yi passed. In Tokyo all rail traffic in & out of Tokyo station was stopped for two hours; the entire railway station district was cleared. And Japan's Son-of-Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they...
Washington, April 14--Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, announced tonight he will introduce a bill tomorrow providing government acquisition, ownership and management of all the Nation's rail-roads by a corporation to be known as the United States Railways...