Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haven Railroad's Colonial chuffed into Boston's dimly lit Back Bay Station, the crowd surged up against the train gates. More than 1,000 were there, cheering and jangling cowbells. When a heavy-lidded, heavy-jowled man in a grey fedora stepped off the train, one oldster cried: "Three cheers for the greatest figure in America...
...years Switchman Fritz Walther had handled Berlin's eastbound trains. Ebert's presidential train, Hindenburg's three-car special, Hitler's headquarters coach has passed his post. A loyal Nazi, Walther was twice decorated by the Third Reich for devotion to duty...
Last week the switchman, still handling1 eastbound traffic, saw a chance to prove his devotion. As a passenger train passed his tower, he threw a wrong switch, sent it plunging into a parked freight loaded with Red Army supplies and re-enforcements. Casualties: 18 killed, 32 seriously injured...
...members of the delegation steamed in, in their own special train, to negotiate a coordinated administration of northern and southern Korea, as directed by the Big Three Foreign Ministers' Moscow Conference. The U.S. commander in Korea, grim-jawed Lieut. General John R. Hodge, was doubtless impressed by the Russians' three sleeping cars, five flatcars to carry their Lend-Lease limousines, a radio communications car. He was certainly impressed by the three cars of coal-the first, except for three cars shipped to the Russian consulate, to be sent from northern Korea since the occupation...
Flip-Flops to Congreve. Robert Edwin Clark was born, a train conductor's son, in Springfield, Ohio. His first job was carrying papers-"not selling them, mind you. I had a route-I didn't stand on a corner prostituting my art." As a boy he did flip-flops with Paul McCullough in the backyard. The two practiced acrobatics, soon got jobs on the small time. For 30 years they appeared in tent shows, minstrel shows, circuses, burlesque, vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies...