Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognized by the Doctors Mayo as their crack stomach surgeon. Because Son James Roosevelt's stomach ulcer failed to respond to rest and diet last summer (TIME, Aug. 22) he returned to the clinic last week. "Howdie" Gray was named to operate. President Roosevelt called for his special train and sped westward. After talking with the President. Dr. Gray moved the operation ahead 24 hours...
...huge, numerous, tightly packed and ancient as the rings on a redwood stump. They include a free-for-all fight wherein a redheaded lumberjack named Ox (Alan Hale) demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place to a running accompaniment of strong talk and more or less continuous gunfire...
...Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, ceremoniously hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
...city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass to reach Bandar Shah, new German-built port near the ancient city of Astarabad and on the semitropical shores of the Caspian Sea. A train will now be able to haul oil from the southwest to the granaries of the northeast, can return to the Persian Gulf loaded with Mazanderan cotton and Caspian Sea caviar. How much the freight charges will be is another matter...
Died. Dr. Victor Eduardo Verdades de Faria. 54, Portugal's Consul General at Manhattan; with his 38-year-old wife; when a train crashed into their automobile; in West Barnstable, Mass...