Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the eight-car B. & O. special rolled west across the U.S., he lazed happily in the bulletproof car (converted originally for Franklin D. Roosevelt), chatted with his official family, slept soundly. He was already awake when the train was jolted by a pre-dawn emergency stop in Indiana (an air hose broke and clamped on the automatic braking system...
John Steinbeck, on a junket to Scandinavia, got a hero's welcome. Reporters and cameramen woke him at 4 a.m. the morning after his arrival in Sweden; reporters stuck with him on the seven-hour-ride by train and ferry to Copenhagen; more boarded the train at every stop. Cried one Copenhagen paper: "John...
...VIPs (Westinghouse Electric, Pacific Mills, Columbia Broadcasting) and some 250 individual VIPs who pay a flat fee for the general service. When the clients' star customers, big dealers and other sacred cows turn up in New York, Murphy gives them "the treatment." Usual ingredients: choice hotel rooms, choice train and plane reservations, choice sport and theater tickets, choice Scotch. Says Murphy: "Most people who come to New York on a business trip don't know what the score is. They want a lot of things, but, especially in times like these, they don't know...
Infra-red rays, which every photographer knows pierce fog, are the basis of one system, now being tested. Each signal box would have an infra-red generator; when its danger signal was up, a box would pour a constant beam of rays down the track. An approaching train would pick up the bad news on a photoelectric cell in the driver...
...only other train making the run will leave Boston at 8:45 o'clock this evening and will take football fans only as far as White River Junction. The taxi fare across the river to Hanover has been reckoned at 50 cents. The sole return train will leave the Junction at 3:50 Sunday morning, the one way tariff being...