Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wednesday was dismal for travelers and travel services alike. The train for the Folkestone-Boulogne service had only 59 passengers (the day before there had been 404); the Dover-Calais train left with 133 passengers compared with 377 the day before. The same day, the British European Airways Corp. announced that it would have to cut its Continental services and sack one-third of its staff...
...eight-coach train clanked to a stop at a crossing on Havana's outskirts. In the darkness thousands were waiting; they had been waiting since early afternoon. Spotlights from Army jeeps and armored cars stabbed at the dark coach windows. In the glare 800 defiant revolutionaries waved at the crowd and shouted: "Death to Trujillo." Turned back by a Cuban gunboat, the men who had sailed from Cuba to overthrow Dominican Dictator Trujillo were returning under guard, and to Havana they were heroes...
...never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under his photographer's black cloth...
Helped by Northwestern University's famed Surgeon Paul Magnuson, who had long wanted to team up veterans' hospitals with medical schools, Hawley began to train and attract topnotch doctors. Over the opposition of some big brass, he got a law taking the V.A. medical corps out of Civil Service and raising fees so that he might hire the ablest specialists as consultants...
...clock this morning, the eleven will indulge in a light, pregame workout in the University of Virginia Stadium this afternoon. Tonight they will be quartered in the Monticello Hotel and Pugh House and tomorrow night at 8:40 o'clock will grab a Boston-bound train out of Charlottesville...