Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia this week the U.S. would see a new kind of propaganda machine. It was streamlined, diesel-powered and air-conditioned. It rolled on rails, was painted red, white & blue, and was guarded by 27 marines. It was the seven-car "Freedom Train," a traveling museum carrying the original Bill of Rights, George Washington's copy of the Constitution and 126 other historic U.S. documents (all under bulletproof glass). After three days in Philadelphia, it would be off on a yearlong, 33,000-mile tour through all the 48 states. It would stop in 300 communities, to show...
...Freedom Train was Attorney General Tom Clark's idea. He and a group of advertising men thought the U.S. needed an antidote for what they diagnosed as a rash of postwar cynicism, lawlessness and ideological confusion...
Nobody had a full explanation for western Canada's worst train wreck.* A preliminary report, from Ottawa's Transport Board, said that No. 4 had the right of way, that the Minaki Special had come into Dugald too fast. But no one explained why Canadian railroads are still using old gaslit, wooden hand-me-downs...
...worst train disaster in all Canada, at Ste. Kilaire, Que., in 1864, killed 83. The worst recent wreck killed 36 at Almonte...
...Young was rapped himself last week by the Office of Defense Transportation. In nationwide advertising last month, Young had cried that some railroads, particularly those with routes between Chicago and California, deliberately slow down freight trains by mutual agreement to eliminate competition. Replied ODT: in the first half of 1947, all Western roads maintained faster freight-train speeds than Young's C. & O. Countered Young: "Statistical lies," inspired by the prejudiced ICC, of which ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson is a member...