Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then something happened. The second engine began to plow up track and ties. A broken rail speared through the third engine. Like a wounded giant it veered crazily, then rolled down 75 feet of embankment, jerked five of the train's 17 cars with...
...seven months there had been eight passenger train pile-ups on the three main lines running down the east coast to Florida resorts-the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line and Florida East Coast Railway. Three of the wrecks were in North and South Carolina, where the swift streamliners slide through the night...
Street lights swung suspended in midair like furry halos. Snub-nosed busses, bunched in convoys, crawled in low gear behind inspectors pacing ahead with lanterns. Three passengers were killed in a suburban train crash; hundreds of fenders were dented...
...travelers planning tours abroad. The immediate problem: how to get there? Not for some six months more would the big liners cruise to Santiago, Chile and Rio. The Pan American Highway would take automobilists no farther than Mexico (but some 200,000 would go that far in 1946). The train went only to Central America...
...tell you about the humor on the air last Sunday night. Jack Benny hired an English butler, whom nobody could understand. Isn't that funny? . . . Charlie McCarthy and Margaret O'Brien visited Santa Claus and were chased back to earth by an atom-run train. . . . This is how it goes on Danny Kaye's show, week after week: 'My sister married an Irishman.' . . . 'Oh, really?' . . . 'No. O'Reilly.' ". . . Mrs. Anthony, what is the easiest way to smash a radio...