Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave Pearl the new camera he had made, Rocco-La Rue told Pearl to go to Brooklyn and follow the jewel woman on her way to work. For Pearl the subway ride was more thrilling than anything she had ever read. She went over her instructions -wait until the train reaches Manhattan's Times Square Station, then shoot the picture at hip level, and beat...
...office as well as a home in one of the world's important capitals. TIME-LIFE could never cover Chinese politics adequately from Shanghai. Nor is commuting between Shanghai and Nanking practical. Regular riding in casual Chinese planes sooner or later would be fatal; the best train takes seven to eight hours one way; the auto highway is still impassable because of broken bridges and potholes...
...calls for the Development Co. to spend about $3 million building and furnishing a lavish ten-story, 300-room hotel, all air-conditioned. When it opens (tentative date: mid-1948), Hilton will take over. All he has to put up is enough cash to buy linen, dishes, pay and train the staff, cover operating expenses. In return, he will get one-third of the profits. Hilton will stand any losses, but nobody expects any. Puerto Rico is already short of hotel rooms, hopes soon to be doing a booming tourist business...
Died. Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, 59, longtime fireball pitcher for the Washington Senators (1907-27), all-time strike-out king (3,497), rated by many as baseball's greatest hurler; of a brain tumor; in Washington...
Uphill Fight. Later in the war Zacharias was called back to Washington as second in command of the Office of Naval Intelligence, under Rear Admiral Harold C. Train ("who had never had one day's experience in intelligence work"). It was an "uphill fight . . . against obstruction and inertia." Then, "just when I was at the top of my successes, and was planning new ones ... I was ordered to sea in command of the battleship New Mexico. All of my subordinates were amazed . . . and so was I. . . . It will have to be credited to the fact that I was moving...