Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago the President and his party were met at the station by an escort of 100 uniformed policemen, and whisked away to the Hotel Sherman Annex. There they were quartered in a two-story bungalow just completed on the roof of the hotel, 300 feet above the street, on the 27th story, with a garden, fountain, dining room, reception hall and four bedrooms. The bedrooms were of no great use to the President, because he arrived early in the morning, went to the bungalow for a couple of hours, addressed the Farm Bureau Federation in the ballroom of the hotel...
...elevators, a complete escalator system running up and down from the street to the seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated by Gimbel Bros., which already owns WGBS...
When the short service within the church was concluded, ten tall Coldstream Guardsmen bore the coffin on their shoulders to the gun carriage; and it was drawn at a walking pace to Wolferton Station, two miles away, where a funeral train waited to carry it to London...
...locomotive draped in black drew the funeral train to London and, as it was desired to avoid the assembly of large crowds until the state funeral next day, the very station at which the train would arrive was kept secret up to the last moment. Eventually the locomotive thundered into King's Cross, and although all haste was made in transferring the coffin to the Royal Chapel of St. James's Palace, where the body was to rest over night, a crowd of some 1,500 persons gathered before the auto-hearse before the royal motors could be got under...
...service was broadcasted by station WJZ, Aeolian Hall, Manhattan...