Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pique. In Chicago, Elmer Miller, annoyed at not finding a seat on a suburban train, vengefully uncoupled the coaches from the engine, ended up in jail...
Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on the adjoining track. The steel nicked the engine, scraped three mail and baggage cars, then slashed murderously into the side of a coach. Sleeping passengers were hurled, dazed and bleeding, into the aisle. Another plate toppled over to the opposite track into the path of an eastbound freight, derailed...
...Palestine last week a bomb split the Egypt-Palestine night express train, carrying about 500 British troops. The dead: five British soldiers, three civilians. Near Tel-Aviv a van loaded with explosive blew up near a police billet: four British were killed. In Haifa, terrorists assassinated A. E. Conquest, chief of the British Criminal Investigation Department in northern Palestine...
Echeloned in Depth. Next day the guests departed-the Americans by plane, the British and French by special trains-making the small, cheerful sounds appropriate to the occasion. As Bevin climbed on his special train, Vishinsky warbled, in Russian, a drinking song, "The more we get together the merrier we'll be." Bevin descended to the platform, joined the chorus: "For your friends are my friends, and my friends are your friends." The next merry get-together of the peripatetic Foreign Ministers Conference is scheduled for London in November, with possibly a preliminary warm-up at the New York...
...into every corner of the land (see box). The methods are simple. Said a Communist organizer in a village near Milan last week: "Communists freed this village. It wasn't the Socialists or the priests. I am a Communist." They rely on Good Works: last fortnight, a jammed train carried 200 children from starving Naples north to Emilia; there, on Communist farms, under special care of Rita Togliatti's women, they would get four months of sun and food at Communist Party expense...