Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunting. He ran away from school, scorned his father's efforts to make him a farmer. When World War II began, he joined the South African Air Force, but soon "lost his temper" and was put under arrest. He escaped by pole-vaulting the prison stockade, hopped a train to Durban and enlisted in the artillery under a fake name. Demobilized in 1945, a veteran of Anzio and Cassino, he set about the more serious business of fighting crocodiles...
...days are gone when United States investors could strip a South American industry of its profits and end by exporting more money than they brought in for initial capital or improvements, over also are the gravy train days when easy Government loans were the watchword. Established on a basis of mutual dependency and profit between capital supplies in this country and the South American industries--each protected by reasonable South American laws--loans could, in the future, act as another bulwark to inter-American mutual aid and understanding...
Another seven-coach train "equipped with all up-to-date facilities" left Moscow for Peking at the same time. Its passenger list of 140, as described by Peking radio: "Soviet experts who have come to help on China's reconstruction, Rumanian technicians who have come to work in China, Chinese students studying abroad, and more than 50 Korean students on their way home. With the comfortable facilities provided and excellent service by Soviet and Chinese conductors on board the train during the nine-day journey, all the passengers arrived here in the best of spirits...
...Chrysler Building. There he painted a glowing picture of the Central's future, with business booming enough so that the price of Central stock would quadruple to 100. Young's plans for the Central call for borrowing $250 million and replacing all passenger cars with his "Train X" (a low, two-wheeled car that "flows around curves...
...track fans were considerably more excited than 26-year-old Josef Barthel. Luxembourg's 1,500-meter Olympic champion (and record holder) was more concerned with his Harvard postgraduate studies in sanitary engineering. After classes, on the day of the meet, Barthel finally got around to hopping a train in Boston, and reached Manhattan just a few hours before...