Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news, which has no respect for editorial deadlines, and such high-speed devices as the radio, telephone and telegraph are generally equal to this challenge. Some of the critical materials we work with also use older, slower methods of communication. Newspictures, for instance, generally go by plane or train-as does background editorial copy designed to be kept on file until events make it news. Dailey's job, in part, is to dispatch and pick up these slower moving materials with the least loss of time...
...Hobo King Jeff Davis, arriving in Atlanta as a paying passenger on a train, announced that hoboes had stopped riding the rods. He explained: "There are plenty of jobs now, and all of us are needed. If kids see us riding the freights, they might try to imitate us and this would further weaken the nation's manpower...
...holiday in the town of Princeton, NJ. Mayor Minot (Mike) Morgan Jr., a Princeton University graduate ('35) himself, had urged all 7,719 townsmen to "lay aside normal tasks" in honor of the university. Flags hung from windows and fluttered from lamp posts. At 9:30, the presidential train from Washington pulled slowly into the station. Harry Truman, who never went to college, had come to get his tenth honorary Doctor of Laws degree and to help celebrate Princeton's sooth year...
Having left Sunday from Poughkeepsie where they witnessed the Poughkeepsie Regatta, they are not without company. Every crew in the Regatta, with the exception of the winner--Navy--and Rutgers, is on the same special train for the exact same purpose...
Although the traveling layoff bodes no good for the Bolles' sweepswingers, the entire Seattle entry list is aboard the train and forced to accept the same conditioning hazard. For this reason, prior physical conditioning will play a heavier role than usual; and before entraining, Bolles happily stated that his boys were in tip-top shape...