Word: track
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw it rained early in the week. Waiting for the opening of the $1,000,000 Slujec Race Track in a few days, young bucks were spending their zlotys in swanky hotels like the Bristol and the Europejski, at cabarets along the Nowy Swiat, where thinly clad Czech performers were popular, and a Silesian polka called Trojaki was a hit. On the flat dark lands of Poland, rye, owing to the spring rains, looked like a record crop. Over the Carpathians in Rumania the 3,078,820 peasant families -more than 1,000,000 of them living in plain clay...
...great foe of fliers, is no fun for railroaders either. One night last week fog was thick on the Pennsylvania R.R.'s tracks near Bradford, Ohio. An eastbound freight stopped at Bradford for coal. Another train, following too closely behind, rammed into it, flinging wreckage onto the adjoining track. On that track a fast fruit train, hauled by two locomotives, was booming along with an all-clear signal. It butted into the debris; a half-mile of cars slithered off the rails like a wounded snake. Three crew men were killed, four more badly hurt. It was the worst...
Although Kirkland won only one spring sport, crew, by piling up seconds and thirds the Deacons widened their lead over the Bellboys. Lowell, however, won the inter-House track meet and tied with Adams in the baseball league. Fourth-place Winthrop copped House tennis honors...
...bridge fails, if a freight train gets shunted to the main line, or somebody leaves a bomb on the track, it will be 30 minutes before the train bearing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth across Canada this week (see p. 22) comes upon the wreckage of its pilot train and the mangled bodies of 56 correspondents and twelve photographers who are covering Their Majesties' trip. Besides brooding over such an unlikely fate, the representatives of the Canadian, U. S. and European press have the following causes for complaint: 1) a shortage of bathing facilities (one shower for seven...
...same year. Because aviators were few, the return was handsome. Most of it went into the factory. Because publicity for Martin-and he got plenty-was publicity for Martin planes, the business flourished. Even Father Martin (who died in 1935) admitted that Glenn had been on the right track all along...