Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier, Foreign Minister at the time of Munich and now a man Molotov praises, struck first. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, he cried, had "failed to get anywhere at all." Bidault, just off the train from Geneva and even more sleepy-lidded than usual, confessed that he could not report "promise of certain success" at Geneva...
They've got guts." At a Paris railroad station, Italian Director Roberto Rossellini was photographed as he emerged from a train with his wife, Actress Ingrid Bergman, who will star in a French run of the witch-burning musical play Joan of Arc at the Stake, which Rossellini will direct. With them were their twins, Isabella and Isotta, nearly two and an armful for father, and son Robertino, four, who looked as if fee wished he'd never left Rome...
What will Perlman do with the Central? Disregarding for the moment Young's high-flown proposals, such as the lightweight Train X, roller bearings and refrigerated cars, he says he will first "spend six months getting acquainted Those present: Allan P. Kirby, Young's side, kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn...
...cost controls were so tight that it knew the exact cost of running each train...
...young Chicago newspaperman, Ben Hecht once found himself standing in a train shed awaiting the arrival of a VIP when he observed a workman lying underneath a locomotive. "His legs protruded from the thighs down. I noted that the locomotive had steam up and that its bell was ringing." Next minute "the workman's long legs were lying on the platform . . . The rest of him . . . remained between the tracks." Just then the VIP's train pulled in, so Reporter Hecht left "the bloody scene" and hurried off to his interview. "I had felt no shock at what...