Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no drums and tramplings, Kentucky's Senator Alben Barkley hit the road. Accompanied by only two aides, the 70-year-old Democratic candidate for Vice President made little leaps around the East by airline, train, and rented car. His knee was stiff and he was suffering from a cold (which he doctored with drugstore pills), but he kept...
...Dewey train had moved through the country with leisurely assurance. The crowds were good-but no more than good-and they reflected their candidate's calm confidence. From the back platform of his car, Dewey made the same speech again & again-an appeal for unity, a promise of honest and competent government, a denunciation of those who played group against group and a criticism of the nation's "wobbling" foreign policy. He pointed out that the 80th Congress had appropriated more money for reclamation than the preceding Democratic Congress, adding invariably: "Sometimes we don't talk...
...Pennsylvania Railroad's 9:35 a.m. train from Harrington, Del. to Franklin City, Va. isn't very impressive. It is made up of a locomotive, an ancient coach and a string of spavined baggage cars. But since nothing else runs on the 78 miles of grass-grown single track which wobbles its way between the two towns, the 9:35 is well known on the Eastern Shore. So is the 9:35-8 brakeman, Fred Warrington, of Harrington, who has worked for the Pennsy for 33 years. Last week Warrington's differences with . the Government made news...
APRIL. The Russians suspend international train service from Berlin...
JUNE 18. The Western Allies announce their currency reform. Next day, the Russians suspend all passenger train traffic between the Eastern and Western zones, supposedly to keep Western marks out of the Russian sector. (Actually the first Russian traffic restrictions came almost three months before...