Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was good reason for Evangelist Graham to smile, for seldom in his crowd-filled career had he met with such enthusiasm. Madras was clogged with out-of-towners seeking rooms; one group of 100 rode the train from Hyderabad four days and nights, and one man walked 400 miles to hear him. Caste was ignored in the stampede to see Billy. To an audience of 40,000 he spoke through two interpreters (one for the Telugu and one for the Tamil tongue...
Offices to implement this study's recommendations in Karachi, Lahore, and Dacca will be manned by two American economists. They will train a small group of Pakistani economists to administer the program spelled out in the report...
...third most profitable U.S. railroad (after Union Pacific and Santa Fe), and 1955 profits reached $56 million. To continue to earn such good profits, Russell believes that railroads must change with the times. Instead of carping about airlines, he wants to operate them. Says he: "If the train is going to be outrun, why shouldn't we go along? There simply have to be casualties in any form of progress...
...President Eisenhower's delight, the deadpan face of Glenn Stephens, who was the engineer on Ike's 1952 campaign train, flashed, onto the screen from Detroit. Stumbling in several places, Stephens read his lines woodenly-and still managed to sound as though he meant every word of what he was saying. "If you want to go train-riding again," said Stephens, "just let me know. I have my hand on the throttle, my lunchbox is full, and I'm ready to start...
Pardon for Jack. On the inaugural train to Washington, it was just like Tad to bait dignitaries with the query "Do you want to see Old Abe?" and then gleefully point out some total stranger. To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy...