Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helmstedt, main crossing point on the Soviet-British frontier, workmen and soldiers had hurriedly installed radio and telephone equipment, repainted border signs, clipped weeds at the sides of the long unused highway. The British announced that the first train would be for military passengers and correspondents. Later in the day, ten trainloads of coal and six of fresh potatoes and other goods would reach the city...
...time is past when companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...
...pick the man that can do this best, and once chosen, how do you train him? The job of finding eight men who together will combine the greatest strength with the greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...
This is the third in a series of four articles on Harvard's scientists and what they are doing. It covers the Geology and Astronomy Departments. system; meters, comets, and dust. A caravan of trucks--"Whipple's Wagon Train"--is now touring the Southwest, snapping pictures of meteors every night to discover their evolution and habits...
Demand for specialization in many businesses today presents the Business School with the problem of finding means to train students in specialties of business "without becoming entrapped by it." David Noted...