Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current recruiting ads, the U.S. Air Force boasts that each new cadet will get training worth $35,000. This is $10,000 more than it cost to train a flyer for World...
...train chuffed into the station at Davos, Switzerland, a battered jeep bearing the markings of the U.S. Fifth Army stood waiting. A news photographer, assigned to cover a royal reunion, wasted no glances on the strapping youngster in U.S. Army flying jacket who sat at the wheel. But when the big train braked to a stop and the pretty girl in the fur coat stepped off, she had eyes only for the jeep driver. "Hello, Michael darling," she trilled in English, running to him and planting an enthusiastic kiss on his cheek. "Hello, Anne," he stammered in blushing answer...
...strike wave had some ugly breakers. In N&252;rnberg, 30,000 workers jammed the former Adolf Hitler Platz, where they listened to nationalist harangues beneath signs proclaiming: WE DEMAND GERMAN UNITY. In a Frankfurt movie theater, when a newsreel showed the American Friendship Train carrying food to Germany's neighbors, the audience yelled: "The Americans will let us starve. Let them go to hell...
...weeks, Jésus Menéndez, No. 2 Cuban Communist and leader of the Sugar Workers' Federation, had been touring the eastern end of the island, stirring up the workers. He was a little tired when he took the train at Yara one day last week. His next stop would be the busy sugar port of Manzanillo, where there was to be a big rally...
...train left Yara, Captain Joaquin Casillas of the Guardia Rural (part of the Cuban Army charged with keeping law and order in rural areas) boarded with a squad and looked up Menéndez. The young (36) Communist leader was told that he could not hold his meeting and would be arrested if he tried. Menéndez replied that, as a member of the Cuban House of Representatives, he had congressional immunity. By the time the train reached Manzanillo the two men were in heated argument. Suddenly, as they alighted, Captain Casillas whipped out his automatic and fired three...