Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thin Man. In Manhattan, slim Lav Mitch, befuddled from a late party, lay down in the middle of a subway track, was awakened uninjured by policemen after at least one train had passed over...
...week's end the President took in his third football game of the season: Army-Navy at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium (see SPORT). Press Secretary Charley Ross was at pains to emphasize that the eight-car presidential special train burned no coal; its motors were driven by hydroelectric power. Traditionally impartial, the President changed sides in the middle of the game, but walked out (at Secret Service urging) with two minutes left to play, missed the Navy's nearly successful final drive...
Died. Edward G. Budd, 75, founder-president of the $80,000,000 Budd Co., which made the first marketable all-steel automobile body in 1912, the first streamlined stainless steel train (Zephyr) in 1934; of a heart attack; in Germantown...
...western never misses. The actors and director may be untalented, the budget low, but the movie camera always finds some beauty and some excitement in galloping horses and sweeping landscapes. Since The Great Train Robbery (1903), Hollywood has made a steady, handsome income-and taken frequent expensive flyers-on what the trade calls "oaters" (TIME, April 29). There is still no sign of a letup...
...Gentleman: "We must be careful not to step on that elaborate train...