Word: stationing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Covering the area formerly occupied by Snell's Service Station as well as additional ground, a new Gulf gasoline station opens its doors today at the corner of Boylston and Elliot Streets, near the Square...
...station, which offers a free call-for and delivery service, was designed along lines of beauty as well as practicality...
...days after the torpedoing of the Courageous, would be a horrible blow to British morale as well as to the Navy. If she were still afloat, the British Admiralty was not tricked into telling where the Ark Royal was, but did announce she was "safe & sound at her allotted station." Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, dismissed the North Sea bombing as a slight episode and observed that it was done from "really too great a height-some 12,000 ft.-for efficacy...
...Creek; mangled flesh being shoveled out of shell-shattered ruins. Unforgettable were the despairing faces of old Spanish women. Most unforgettable of all: a blood-covered, four-year-old Chinese child, sitting bolt upright like a doll on a deserted railway platform, behind him the charred beams of the station...
...succeed Great Northern's late William P. Kenney, directors picked big, brusque, likable Frank James Gavin (58), who joined the road as an office-boy 42 years ago, worked his way up through station agent, division supt., etc., became a rock-ribbed "24-hour railroad man." A brief man (he answers telegraphed queries with a snappy "Yes" or "No"), he has no hobbies, no outside interests but his work. But Frank Gavin, who was G. N.'s executive V. P., knows all about his road from operations to finance. Wise to what is going...