Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have My Word." It was September 1944. The campaign train rolled up through the Midwest, returned to Albany. A few days later, Tom Dewey received another visit from Colonel Clarke...
...Trains, No Planes. There were new things to talk about. In San Francisco, a ship that had recently been carrying G.I.s sailed for Argentina with a load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply...
...honors with Cocktails, a collection of lathe-turned automatons on a lawn. Nevertheless, both shows contained a few really original approaches to painting-for instance, U.S.A. Two Cents a Mile, by a little-known newcomer named Lucia Autoririo. Her abstract organization of the impressions one gets from a train window at night suggested a new way of combining time & space in a picture which stays still...
...special train chugged out of Berlin's Wannsee Station, bound for Frankfurt. U.S. Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and his military government staff were aboard. After a while, Clay remarked that the scenery seemed changed since his last trip. The conductor glanced casually out a window, looked startled, gasped: "We just passed my house...
...train backed up, lost five hours getting on the right track...