Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonderful while it lasted: 8,500,000 Americans had tasted the hospitality of the 52-20 club. In effect, the 52-20 club was a kind of caboose on the G.I. gravy train. Under its provisions, every unemployed World War II veteran was entitled to $20 a week until he found a job-for a maximum of 52 weeks. Veterans who were self-employed but found the going skimpy could draw enough to assure themselves an income of $100 a month...
...hours later, Vaughan stepped off the train in Washington's sweltering Union Station. He tried to duck, but newsmen cornered him. One reporter asked Vaughan who paid for the Guatemala vacation. Vaughan flushed, drew back to strike the questioner, then changed his mind. "What the hell business is it of yours?" roared Vaughan, ". . . it cost me $2,000 to take my family on this vacation . . . it's nobody's goddamned business but mine and you can quote...
...Communist-led railway union said that it would fight the firings "to the end." Angry workmen loosened switches, cut wires and attempted train derailments. One rain-soaked night last week, Shimoyama's body, with one arm and both legs cut off, was found lying across the tracks in Tokyo's Adachi ward...
...country editor and city reporter, Kansas-born Forrest Warren had done his share of picture-chasing and interviewing on stories of sudden death. Then, in 1913, his wife was killed by a train, and another reporter came to interview him. Warren decided that he wanted nothing more to do with that sort of work, promised himself to try instead to write things to make people happy...
Somehow, perhaps in collusion with Red railway workers, they managed to filter through a police cordon. They cleverly planted Red flags in the hands of the official greeters. When the repatriates' train pulled in, the welcome was transformed into a frenzied Red rally. Bewildered clubwomen stood disconsolately amid unnoticed cups of cold tea as the demonstration swept around them...