Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend who was responsible for the Friendship Train, Drew Pearson...
...years from one end of the Mississippi to the other as "Big Mamma," the "shovingest" boat on the river, was on the banks and waiting for the wrecker. One of the last of the sternwheelers, she could handle 19 oil barges-the equivalent of a tank-car train ten miles long...
...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...Freedom Train (TIME, Sept. 22) with its display of historical documents began a tour of six Georgia cities-after dutifully coupling on a "Heritage Train" (one Central of Georgia Railway baggage car) in which local patriots had proudly deposited the original manuscripts of the Constitution of the Confederate States and of Gone With the Wind...
Romola would also like to get her daughter Kyra in the movies. But Kyra, who is 33 and runs a ballet school in France, wants to dance. Says Romola: "I don't advise anyone to dance. You train for 20 years and are famous for three...