Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people on earth), and the number of dialects spoken in this area-India alone has 225-makes telephoning for information more than just difficult. As a result, these three reporters last year ticked off 21,825 miles by air and nobody knows how many miles by train, car, bullock cart and on foot...
...like a week plucked from the 1952 campaign. By train, plane, automobile, horse & buggy and afoot. Dwight Eisenhower went out among the people last week. Nearly a million Americans cheered him on his way. Scores of high-school bands tinkled and tootled and ruffled and flourished for him. In a frosty Pennsylvania stadium, he ate an alfresco box supper with 9,000 (see below). South of the border for one day, he offered a champagne toast to the President of Mexico. In New Orleans he took on a flaming sunburn, in Kansas City a stockman's Homburg. In Abilene...
Banquet of Flowers. After a mammoth birthday party at Hershey, Pa.* -Ike returned briefly to Washington, but the next day he was off again-this time aboard the presidential train, leaving Mamie at the White House. At his first full stop, in Defiance. Ohio, he laid the cornerstone of the Anthony Wayne Library (see EDUCATION), then switched to his plane, the Columbine, for the flight to Kansas City. There, in the Muehlebach Hotel penthouse that was built especially for Harry Truman, Ike welcomed the visiting governors at a private dinner party. Afterward, he addressed a meeting of the Future Farmers...
...healthy-looking boys in white trousers, green sweaters with large "D's" and green and white woolie caps were waiting at the train station. Kicking their heels, together, they sprinted over two fire plugs and headed...
...might interest you to know," he said, "that the two boys who met your train had INSTRUCTIONS. In fact, right over here I have a written copy of the conversation you held on the way back in the car. And we have that little girl's notebook...