Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army roadblock. By dusk the army had forced him and the junta to agree to disband all irregular forces. Then the cadets and regular army soldiers marched the battered survivors of the anti-Communist Army of Liberation like P.W.s right through the capital's Sixth Avenue to a train that carried them back to their old headquarters near the Honduran border. That night official communiques saluted "the glorious gesture of the gentlemen cadets," and it was plain that the army thought...
...routine matters, thanks to the help of the traffic representatives of the airlines, railroads and steamship companies. Occasionally, however, the bureau gets a surprise request. One of the most unusual came from a TIME executive planning an out-of-town convention who asked for a theater car on the train that was to carry the delegates. No one in Travel had ever heard of a theater car; neither had the railroads. The man who made the request explained that it was a car equipped with theater seats, in which meetings could be held en route. Finally, someone in the Pullman...
...Though it costs an average $14,000 to train a new enlisted man, the re-enlistment rate has dropped from 66% in 1952 to 33% this year. The trouble: low pay and declining fringe benefits (e.g., medical care for families, post exchanges and commissary privileges) are overcome by good pay on the outside for Air Force-trained technicians...
Despite the fine promises of Pierre Mendès-France, Diem was also half strangled by the albatross of French colonialism: if he asked the French army to withdraw, it would take about 80% of Viet Nam's military equipment in its train; if he asked the French army to stay, the Communists might easily convince the Vietnamese that Diem's new independence was a myth...
...stuff in water and roll it on." Bernstein soon bought himself a $12.75 home-carpentry set and nailed up a shelf. "Did a good job, too." In quick order, he reversed a bothersome living-room door, made a plywood table for his son's electric-train set, laid a tile floor in the bathroom. "Great stuff-it's got suction cups on the bottom-no trouble laying it down." Last week ex-Lounger Bernstein was busy building a brick walk for his backyard, a wall bookcase, and planning a handsome new cabinet...