Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means or techniques of building them, but said firmly, "It is simply foolish for us to think that we cannot or must not share some kind of our information with our allies." This seemed to mean that the U.S. could help its allies prepare defenses against atomic attack and train their soldiers in atomic warfare...
...Plessy v. Ferguson, a transportation case. It arose on June 7, 1892, when Homer Adolph Plessy bought a ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad, from New Orleans to Covington, La. Plessy, seven-eighths white and one-eighth Negro, took a seat in the white coach on the segregated train. When he refused to move, he was taken off and jailed. The case reached the Supreme Court in 1896, and the court ruled that Louisiana's law, calling for "equal but separate" facilities on trains, was constitutional. The majority opinion held that Negroes were equal to whites "civilly and politically...
...Zero fighters during the war, and postwar had switched some of its machines into the manufacture of textile machinery. Koehring Co. took one-fourth of the stock in the new company and a royalty of 5% on gross sales. In return, it gave its technical help, and undertook to train Japanese technicians in the U.S. Since then, the company has turned out $1,000,000 worth of cement-handling equipment, increased its backlog...
Harvard students will have a unique opportunity in has weeks following the Christmas holidays, to take advantage of the snow-covered ski-slopes only a few hours away train, but or car from Cambridge--in New Hampshire and Vermont...
...visit to the U.S. As a tourist, she had first-class tickets in curiosity and energy, although her luggage was overweight in preconceived notions. In four months she toured the nation coast to coast, taking in New England and California, Chicago and New Orleans. She traveled by plane, train, automobile, bus and river boat. She also walked, seeing more of New York in a few weeks than many New Yorkers see in a lifetime. America Day by Day is the diary of her trip, a mixed salad of surface impressions, often crisp and pungent, more often hand-me-down gossip...