Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipped Fieseler Storch planes took off survivors in nine breathtaking shuttle trips. None of the passengers had been badly hurt. Captain Ralph Tate Jr., pilot of the plane, felt so good at the rescue depot that he spurned an ambulance, jauntily vaulted a fence to the waiting hospital train. To eleven-year-old Alice McMahon, it had been great good fun living off snow and chocolate bars for five days. She came off the rescue plane vigorously chewing gum, told reporters: "I had a fine time...
...little warmth. American Army blankets sold for $66 on the Tokyo black market. Emperor Hirohito, democratically trying to get along on the same rations as his people shivered in his chilly palace, warmed only by a few small electric "bugs." To save coal, railway officials planned to silence train whistles; more wistfulness than thermodynamics went into their estimate of 100 tons a day thus saved. Tokyo newspapers sadly reported a touching little story which underlined the clothing shortage: seven small children playing in a temple compound were approached by a middle-aged man who offered to teach them "a wonderful...
...whole idea began (according to Goldwyn pressagents) when the producer ran across a cut and a story in TIME (Aug. 7, 1944). The picture showed a group of homecoming marines leaning out the windows of a train coach on which had been chalked "Home Again!" The news story suggested that the boys might be returning to their families and jobs with mixed emotions...
Holdout. In New Rochelle, N.Y., an elderly woman boarded a train, told the conductor, "I didn't buy this ticket today," gave him one dated September...
...Crack-Up," however, features an adequate melodramatic plot and some first class direction. Pat O'Brien's train ride, under the pressure of trying to remember a night lost when he was drugged, makes a phantoin scene of great tension and force. But the rest of the picture is anticlimactic. It's all about O'Brien's efforts to clear himself of a murder while simultaneously busting open a huge fraud having to do with forgeries of great art masterpieces. This is the sort of thing that Humphrey Bogart shows up in every year or two, to everybody's huge...