Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From London headquarters Lady Reading shot twelve telegrams to her twelve regional chiefs (in Britain's twelve autonomous defense zones). They shot 2,000 telegrams to their local branches. From Lands End to John 0'Groats the grey-green overcoats began to gather their cars around station platforms. Other grey-green overcoats in London were leading little lines of towheads with lunch boxes and gas masks to Euston, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Paddington stations, stuffing them into cars with more grey-green overcoats headed for whatever destination the clearest track presented. Each towhead had a postcard to send...
...tune, and the Mayor did so literally. Suddenly the blasts of martial music at continuous intervals from Warsaw Radio, which had meant to all Europe that the city was holding out (TIME, Sept. 25), were replaced by deep-toned funereal hymns. It was not, however, Stefan's station but Berlin which finally and authentically announced "Warsaw has capitulated unconditionally!" then burst into a triumphant fanfare of Deutschland über Alles...
Commander Momsen was at his experimental station in Washington when first news of the disaster was telephoned in from the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, "Squalus is down off the Isle of Shoals, depth between 200 and 400 feet; have your divers and equipment ready to leave immediately...
Harvard men carry their own bags in railroad stations "as a proof of virility according to Haywood Broun '10, well known columnist in an article in defense of the underpaid station...
...usual chase through the train at the frontier station, Barry and Brenda having grabbed the little black bag with the evidence, make the usual jump while the train is moving, as usual escape. Last shots show Brenda being kissed by a State Department official...