Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night Stand. In Regina, Sask., two women boarded a night train to Saskatoon, awoke next morning still in Regina, snowbound, stepped off to eat breakfast, returned to find the train gone...
When airplanes crash, pilot error or faulty maintenance usually takes the blame for the spectacular carnage. In train wrecks, generally less lethal, the same factors apply. Last week...
Twenty nine competitors, a coach, trainer and two managers form the Yale-bound Varsity track encourage which will board a 9 o'clock train at South Station tomorrow morning. Starting at 2 o'clock, tomorrow's meet is the first postwar revival of Harvard-Yale indoor track competition...
...Story is so far unverifiable. The Central Refugee Camp Administration does not know. Story is traceable to frontier station Tinglev, where its originator, local newspaper tipster, a railway clerk, says he got it from colleague who heard it Monday from still unidentified Danish policeman on refugee train who in turn was reporting narrative of another policeman who said Father Germania was on his train crossing the frontier fortnight...
...Four days after installation of the ''foolproof" traffic control system was proudly announced to the press last winter, it failed to function, sent a freight head-on into a passenger train, killing a fireman. The Rio Grande has had no other fatality since McCarthy took over...