Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Captain Heinen took the stand he was questioned with some asperity because he had said previously to the press: "They will appoint the usual whitewashing inquiry board to camouflage this disaster and its cause, but every man at the Air Station knows why it happened. That accounts for the tense air over there at Lakehurst. I consider the Lakehurst crew responsible for taking off those valves...
When he reached the capital a great cheering crowd met him in front of the railroad station. He was hoisted on the shoulders of two War veterans, and paraded around the circle in front of the Union Station with a drum and bugle corps leading the procession...
...Fund is planning to acquire a radio station not only to spread its propaganda, but also to give artistic programs...
Travel. The tea-drenched atmosphere of Russian stations is back to pre-War humidity. Newsstands are well filled. As the bell rings, comfortable dining and sleeping cars are thrown open to travelers, who need not struggle for a place. Through regions once stricken with famine, the traveler speeds past fields luxuriant with a ripening harvest. At the great Kursk Station in Moscow he finds piles of perishable foodstuffs, which are being rushed to customers able to pay for them, from a distance of 1000 miles or more...
Four Russian agitators, after dallying several months in China, arrived at the Tokyo railroad station. A straggly thousand Japenese workmen desired to see them, meet them, fraternize. The Tokyo police were instructed to prevent these courtesies, and, 400 strong, intervened between the visitors and the astonished workmen. Some violence and a few injuries ensued...