Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision brought political joy because he had championed the nickel fare. To Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes it brought legal melancholy because he had drawn up the I. R. T. brief. On Wall Street, I. R. T. stocks dropped 20 points in about the time that it takes a subway train to rush from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
...white collar; to Smasher McLaglen it meant a job he liked. Told to pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad director, he chose to superintend the Lost & Found Department. Saving the Queen of Lisonia's jewels from train robbers, he was told again to pick his job. He became a fireman. Best shot of this smart film- Strong Boy and the lost child...
...Dieu Herrick! In a special railway baggage car - redecorated with potted plants and burning candles to resemble a chapelle ardente - the remains of Myron Timothy Herrick left Paris for Brest by special train...
...railway station, which had become a veritable fortress with sandbags and machine guns, was captured. At the height of the battle federal cavalry was sent to cut the railway north of Jiminez and prevent the rebels escaping. A lucky shot by a federal bombing plane exploded an ammunition train behind the town. The rebels, believing themselves surrounded, fled. Jiminez was captured...
...appointment of Mr. Ecker to its presidency, the Metropolitan selected no outsider, no Professional Executive, to handle its gigantic business. The professional executive is usually an importation from a company's financial backers, and the Metropolitan is, of course, nobody's toy train. Nor does Mr. Ecker belong to the small group of Dynastic Executives who inherit their positions. He might well be termed a "log cabin to White House" executive...