Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Langlie describes the journey: "It was quite a trip. All three of us kids had the whooping cough, and I was worried about my dog, who was in the baggage car. When we got off the train in Seattle, I didn't see either the dog or my father. Then, all at once, we saw the dog tied to a telephone pole and my father coming to welcome us." With dog and father accounted for, Art Langlie looked around, announced, "I'm going to like it here, Mother. I like the trees and the water...
...read of the proposed congressional investigation of the collision of two foreign-flag vessels outside U.S. territorial waters [;Aug 6]. If one is to project the righteous trumpetings of Representative Bonner on the subject of protecting the American traveler abroad, will the death of a U.S. citizen in a train wreck in Buenos Aires necessitate a congressional investigation of the Argentine State Railways...
...high drama. More important, it was always there. Creepie-peepies and walkie-talkies manned by hard-running TV reporters−notably ABC's Ed Morgan, CBS's Dick Hottelet, NBC's Merrill Mueller−peered, poked and pried into the remotest nooks of hotel rooms, train stations, nightclubs, and the convention hall itself...
INTERCITY MONORAIL between Fort Worth and Dallas, which would cost about $500,000 a mile, is being considered by Monorail Inc. and Texas Motor Coaches. Experimental version of high-speed train, which runs on suspended rail supported by steel towers, has been operating in Houston...
...little uncomfortable at being praised so, now and then signaling his friend to lay off. Nothing doing. Bert Shoemaker recalls Doc's youth, the old days when he worked at the local drugstore, his herculean labors with the injured the day of the great train wreck, how he raised funds for the nearby hospital, how soft he was about collecting bills from the poor. Brusquely, yet delicately, Speaker Shoemaker talks about the doctor's great bereavement−the beloved wife whose mind gave way after she lost two babies. A Family Party is slight...