Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai's North Station troop trains were arriving every few minutes jammed to the roof with Chinese soldiers from Nanking...
Thus read placards posted in stations of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R. R. 50 years ago last week. Some 750 people from Peoria and nearby towns made reservations. A train dispatcher took along his bride. A superintendent of the T. P. & W. attached his private car, invited a party of friends. Sixteen coaches hauled by two locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd. Setting gaily forth, the train presently reached tiny Chatsworth. Ill., took on six more passengers, chugged out of the station at 11:35 p. m. Some two miles outside the town it approached a small wooden culvert...
...Knopf Jr, 19-year-old son of the Manhattan publisher, left Norwood, Mass, with $15 and an ambition to "make his way" in the West. Week later, after his father had aroused the entire U. S., he turned up, penniless and hungry, in a Salt Lake City police station, was promptly packed off home via air. His conclusions: "Truck drivers are the friendliest people of all; they bought me a couple of meals and let me ride practically all the way. And one of them gave me-how do you say it?- four bits-fifty cents-for a shave...
Boiled down, the union's demands were simple and thoroughgoing. Every radio station that used records would have to maintain an acceptable number of musicians on its payroll. All these musicians must be union members. No station could transmit music to a pickup station that did not employ musicians. Every station must be licensed by the A. F. of M., use only records and transcriptions similarly licensed. Every contract between a local and a radio station must clearly acknowledge these terms. Before playing canned music the announcer must announce it as such...
...Louis, controversy raged over designs by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles for a $60,000 fountain in Aloe Plaza across from Union Station. Last February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked...