Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip was not without some unpleasantness. In Omaha an angry crowd of Baltic refugees from Soviet tyranny picketed Molotov's train, and the Russian delegation stayed discreetly aboard. But in Cheyenne, Wyo. the Soviet diplomat hit the high spot of his tour when a reporter from the Denver Post presented him with a ten-gallon hat. The reporter had three Stetsons of different sizes, just to be sure the fit was right. Molotov first tried on a size 7⅛, which was too snug. The newsman offered him a 7½. That was just right. "Thank you. Thank...
LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN will be built by General Motors this summer. Called Train Y, it will carry 400 passengers at better than 100 m.p.h. in low-slung, luxuriously appointed cars, each with a pantry and rest room at one end, a vestibule with steps for both high and low platforms at the other. Cost, excluding engine...
Glowing with holiday anticipation, Britain's Prince Charles, 6, and his sister, Princess Anne, 4, with their pet Corgis waddling glumly beside them, entered Euston station to board a train that took them to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for Whitsuntide. At week's end, the royal children were caught at Balmoral by Britain's railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...After questioning 80 large corporations, Bernard Haldane, president of Executive Job Counselors, reported the cost to industry of hiring the new college graduate. The recruiting of a liberal arts man costs $500, an engineer, $2,600. It costs $1,000 to train a graduate for the first year, and another $4,200 for his salary. Three out of ten graduates will either quit or change their jobs within their first twelve months. The expense to the nation's employers: $336,640,000 for the turnover, plus an additional $106,515,000 to find and train the necessary replacements...
...fleet of dredges at work on the channel at an annual cost of nearly $2,000,000, and it suspects that a lot of the mud they dredge is washed back up the river by the rising tides. If it could be sure, the Authority figured, it might train the tides of the Thames to carry more...