Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donovan got a hard slap from the state A.F.L., which dragged up an old case from the time when Donovan was U.S. District Attorney and used it to denounce Donovan as antilabor. What Donovan had done-in 1922-was to prosecute Buffalo labor leaders who had dynamited a passenger train. At the A.F.L.'s blast out of history he protested loud & long, but some damage had been done to his candidacy...
...work week (we go to press on Monday, take Tuesday & Wednesday off) are special problems for our researchers. They can't sleep late Sundays, have trouble getting to church, worry about their boy friends taking other girls out on Saturdays and Sundays, often have to ride the milk train to the suburbs. Says one, with some asperity: "The butcher closes promptly at six and I am never there...
Beer & Jokes. Next day, 11,000 Republican ward heelers, precinct captains and office seekers roared into the fairgrounds, leaving a wake of blended whiskey, cold beer and old Roosevelt jokes. They came by special train, bus, airplane, automobile caravan. They were cocky, noisy, full of fire. As farmers on the midway gaped, they clamored into the race-track grandstand for their own fun & fireworks...
...pastel-tinted, rambling ranch houses and hangars of "Thunderbird One," the Institute planned to train a new kind of cadet, the young businessman or diplomat prepping for a Latin-American career. Yount's salary as president of "Thunderbird College": $1,000 a month...
Under a 20-year agreement with China's National Resources Commission, Westinghouse International will design buildings, set up machinery and production processes, and train personnel for a $35 million electrical manufacturing plant in China. In return, Westinghouse will get lump-sum payments for its know-how and brain power during the first ten years, royalties on the products during the second ten years...