Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that juncture Snedaker's troubles multiplied. The anti-cholera regulations had ruined standard bus, train and plane schedules; service from Egypt to many countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
...President himself kept routine business to a holiday minimum. He popped over to Union Station to see the Freedom Train, peered at one of General George Washington's army supply accounts, noted: "Rum on every page." He received a delegation of National Guardsmen, told them that he would again ask Congress to authorize universal military training. He was presented with a maroon tie, emblazoned with a Missouri mule leading a camel bearing three wise men. Ex-Haberdasher Truman promptly twisted the tie into a salesman's knot, observed: "I haven't forgotten...
Donaldson trained his eye for swindlers; he also became a relentless pursuer of facts & figures in fraud cases. Among those he helped to convict: the late Dr. Frederick E. Cook, the polar explorer, for mail fraud. The catch which gained Donaldson promotion was his tracking down of a long-wanted train robber...
Peabody's division of field studies has surveyed 20 state and city educational systems, in the South and Southwest, and recommended . improvements. It is the South's No. 1 propagandist for more junior colleges-stressing technical training. Reasons Hill: "In junior colleges, we can train men to be factory superintendents and they don't need to learn Latin...
...weight which makes her look stocky rather than stout. Vestiges of her girlhood beauty now light a face that is impressive with mature intelligence. But, since she has little interest in dress, she often looks as if somebody had thrown her clothes on her as she rushed for the train...