Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stranded in Manhattan after missing the last commuter train to suburban White Plains, one Elmer Patrick Gargan turned to relatives for help. To by-pass telephone-struck domestic exchanges, he called his aunt in Eire over the less-snarled overseas circuit, asked her to relay a message home. The call went through in jig time: Manhattan to Eire to White Plains. Cost: $12 for three minutes...
Coach Adolph Samborski had not settled definitely on his hurling choice when a squad of 17 players left by train for its upstate New York destination last night. Brendon Reilly, who pitched nine innings against Columbia on Wednesday, may get the call after only two days of rest; otherwise, Jack Wallace or Ralph Hymans will try to stop...
...White Deer (pop. 500), Stockman H. W. Holmes stood in his front yard, uneasy in the muggy closeness. Suddenly, in the lowering clouds to the west, he saw a black, towering funnel, wavering, twisting, clutching at the earth. There was a deep-toned rumble "like a fast freight train." Said Holmes: "It hit an oncoming freight train just outside of town, and they tell me that 19 cars and two cabooses went off the rails. I didn't see that because the debris was filling the air as far as I could...
...long tour which Monteux calls "10,000 miles of music," the orchestra traveled in a ten-car special train...
...I.L.S. ground equipment is installed in enough airports. But when it is, the lines will be ready to use it. If everyone sweats enough, and the new planes and safety devices work as well as expected, Pat Patterson expects that air travel will be as regular and safe as train travel in about three years. Then the air age will have arrived...