Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take a train or aeroplane
...right: it was going to be some party. The good old Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council had gotten two special trains, all Pullman and air-conditioned, to send its 188 delegates to the Teamsters' convention in San Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...
...first mention of "Courthouse" Lee's name, thousands of ex-G.I.s pricked up their ears, and their memories. They remembered Courthouse Lee all right, for his private train and his big, black limousine with the red leather cushions, and for all the hectic saluting that went on wherever starchy old Courthouse strode or rode. General Lee, supply chief to easygoing Ike Eisenhower, loved parades and smaller pomp, and he insisted that his quartermasters, bakers and truck drivers be snappier, and handier with that salute, than any combat infantryman...
Family Beds. In Hamburg that night, others were also finding it hard to get along without much money. Near the station some Germans, just arrived by the last train, were shambling along between the rubble piles searching for a sheltered place to sleep a few hours. There was only a bunker-a concrete-walled, prisonlike municipal air-raid shelter. The bedraggled transients dug out their identity cards, were suspiciously eyed by a policeman at the door, then were led to their cells...
Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...