Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve were Italian-Canadians. All were surly. When officers tried to take them aboard a train at Sault Ste. Marie, they resisted, smashed windows. They were finally handcuffed and bundled aboard. During the night, five managed to escape. One was recaptured at once. The other four hitchhiked, still handcuffed, into North Bay. Local police picked them...
Chat. In Roanoke, Va., Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Martin Wilbourne, unexpectedly bound for overseas duty, hopped off his train, married the girl awaiting him at the station, hopped back, departed brideless. Elapsed time: 15 minutes...
...commuting train four young girls daily ride from Newark to Princeton Junction. The oldest of them is not over 16. Each will smoke two cigarets in this half-hour ride...
Women rarely obey nonsmoking rules. Every car on a train is a smoker to them and train crews cannot stop them...
...Passengers boarding the Pennsylvania Limited at Washington, D.C. one day last week peered curiously at the 16 prisoners of war in the private car at the end of the train. They were Germans-mostly veterans of the ill-fated Afrika Korps; they looked smug and well-fed in their khaki uniforms stenciled with large P.W.s. Three U.S. Army noncoms watched over them...