Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathizers, growing- panicky at the crumbling of their walls of misrepresentation before the broadsides of hard facts which I have given to the people in the last few days, made crafty moves yesterday to muzzle essential information from reaching the people. L delivered an address over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession time and again rotten hog livers and pigs' heads, frozen spotted eggs, putrid spareribs and beef brains...
...just 11:00 in the evening when a plump little man bustled into the railway station at Ottawa. "All aboard. Toronto train", called the conductor, and the little man scrambled up the steps. As the train rolled away, the sandman came upon the plump little fellow; for he had had a very busy...
...been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which was the foolish action of the crew at the station in changing the valves. Already they are trying to lay the blame on poor dead Landsrowne...
...little knot of people, perhaps 50 at most, gathered in the railway station at Brussels waiting for the departure of the Paris express. A tall elderly couple were about to take the train. The woman was talking to a lad who seemed to be her son and apparently giving him much good advice...
...report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing one of their two disabled planes and making exploration flights over Baffin Island and Labrador before steaming on down to Maine...