Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly at noon on the appointed day, the President's special train, after considerable backing & filling in the yards, chuffed into Des Moines' Rock Island railroad station. Cavalry bugles blared and police sirens shrieked as the Presidential procession moved off on a circuitous and well-advertised route which took it along all the city's principal streets on its way to the Capitol. From the back seat of an open car, President Roosevelt smiled and waved his Panama hat at the cheering crowds, well sprinkled with Landon sunflower buttons, which lined the curbs...
...blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and Government men thronged to a private farm designated by the Delta Experiment Station at Stoneville. For many a month they had heard and talked a great deal about the cotton-picking machine invented by John Daniel Rust and his brother Mack...
...delegation of local bigwigs, some 6,000 citizens and five women's fife & drum corps were waiting in Buffalo, N. Y.'s railroad station one morning last week when Nominee Alf M. Landon's special train rolled up to the turning point of his Eastern campaign tour. Nominee Landon, rid of his lingering pleurisy, waved his hat, cried "Hello everybody!" and singled out two small boys for special greeting. Stepping out of his way to shake their hands, he asked: "How do you do, little...
Trick of the Yean Last year's outstanding audience-catcher was the Bowes amateur hour, acquired by Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from a relatively small station to follow in the footsteps of Comedian Eddie Cantor as nation-wide salesman for Chase & Sanborn's coffee. This season's most unusual big program may be Chase & Sanborn's "Good Will Court" in which downhearted folk step up to a microphone, tell their personal difficulties to municipal judges who pass out good advice. Appeal of this program, which shrewd J. Walter Thompson begins...
...prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station at Jungo, a tiny hamlet on the Western Pacific R. R., 36 miles southwest of Jumbo Mine. Price was $10,000, $500 down...