Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balance and for technical smoothness the October Advocate rings true: the University's oldest surviving journal now hits the stands with a professional post-war product that appears to have beaten the first gimmicks of revival. In a topical range from chronicled Harvard of the '70s to a sleeper sex startler there is sufficient interest to carry the reader quite through the thirty-five attractive pages...
Join the Enemy. The Interstate Commerce Commission ended the long fight over the Pullman sleeping car service by approving the plan of 56 railroads to buy it. The price: $40,202,482. Railroader Robert R. Young, who had tried to buy the sleeper service, said that his railroads would join the other...
Then he took the sleeper for Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
...waited less than a minute. Driving into the curve ten miles west of Altoona, Pa., the lead locomotive of the crack Pennsylvania sleeper lost its footing. With a night-splitting roar, it ground into the ties, buckled, and took off over a 55-ft. embankment, pulling with it the second locomotive, a baggage car, three Pullmans and a diner...
...awake in his sleeper berth, a New England businessman pondered the problem of reconciling his business and his God. When he got back to Bristol, R.I., William H. Smith went to his boss (who is also his brother) and said: "Business is rather a selfish institution. What can we do that is unselfish?" He had an answer ready for his own question: hire a clergyman, at company expense, to further Christianity in New England...