Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Refreshed by a couple of hours at the cinema, the barrel-chested, slightly bandylegged churchman rode home on a jam-packed London underground train. As he left the underground, he linked arms with his wife and strode rapidly toward the red-&-black Tudor buildings of Fulham Palace, his residence as Lord Bishop of London...
...said Crawford, are not necessarily quislings or traitors but industrialists who "expanded their production for the Germans" or who got "in trouble with radical labor leaders." The underground was made up largely of Communists, young people and characters from the underworld who robbed ten peaceful French families for every train they blew up. A "conservative" French friend told Crawford that France was so prosperous under the Nazis that "if these conditions had continued a year and a half longer, too many people, perhaps half of them, would have been willing to settle for things as they were...
These and many other sights filled another week of patient waiting on the part of all concerned--waiting till Keith Miller can persuade Prof. "Bill" Cunningham to give one of his inimitable train imitations...
...buyers bought more vacuum cleaners, radios, etc. than Gimbel warehouses could hold. Bernard simply rented more warehouse space, kept his buyers hunting for more goods. One lucky find just before Christmas 1943: 400-odd electric train sets. Thus, when the stocks of competitors were running out, Gimbel stores were boldly advertising sales of scarce goods. Many a new customer was thus lured into a Gimbel store. Example: the chain's $3½-million-inventory of nylon and silk stockings lasted well into 1943, an irresistible lure for women who buy an estimated 85% of all retail merchandise sold...
General Chen was making a spectacular start as War Minister. He announced his determination to abolish thousands of the 20,394 sub-organizations of the National Military Council. He laid plans to train 30 to 40 divisions in 1945, to equip each of them with U.S. artillery. Whereas each Chinese army now comprised three understrength divisions, Chen planned armies built of four full-strength, "square" divisions of four regiments each...