Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintenance shops in Kansas City. The Indian delegation to the U.N. Assembly was forced to debark from a T.W.A. plane at Shannon, Eire, and transfer to the unstruck American Overseas Airline. But most U.S. passengers, accustomed to the uncertainties of air travel, took the strike in stride, or the train instead...
Lionel, biggest toy train maker, expects to sell more trains (about $10 million worth) than the whole industry sold in its best prewar year. For grownup buffs, Chicago's Varney Scale Models Inc. invested $50,000 in drawings and dies for a new locomotive model. It has already sold 1,000 kits of parts at $100 each...
Last week the Museum's film students were well into a 67-week course called "The History of the Motion Picture (1895-1946)." They were seeing The Great Train Robbery (1903) and D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), Chaplin's Easy Street (1917) and De Mille's Male & Female (1919). In coming weeks they will flock to see Valentino, The Big Parade with John...
...Princeton, at 7 a.m., Harvard's big band piled out of its special train on the weed-covered tracks below the station, began its tootling march across Old Nassau's campus. Out from the dormitories spilled Princeton men in pajamas. A few -ex-G.I.s-carried rifles. They got what they wanted from Harvard's band: Princeton tunes...
Other gripes are smaller: the bother of having to spend three hours a day commuting: the fact that taking books out overnight is next to impossible, since the train gets them in barely in time for a 9 o'clock; the small stoves which take intricate handling to get all parts of a meal ready at the same time...