Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth team will arrive at approximately 10:30 in Boston. The football squad and a few students will be on the same train. Most of the Hanoverians will make the trip later in the afternoon, however...
...Mallingford. the indignant citizens of Titfield take over the archaic rolling stock, with the vicar serving as engineer, the village ne'er-do-well as fireman, and a local squire as brakeman. An alcoholic landowner (Stanley Holloway) supplies the necessary money on being promised that the early-morning train will carry a bar-and-buffet...
...penny to be able to marry her. His high-strung state at this time is shown by a clinical anecdote. Expecting a visit from Martha, Freud found that when he laid his stethoscope on a patient's heart, he could hear "nothing but the rushing of a railway train...
...years. Seldom has there been a greater opportunity for able men, not only to get good jobs, but to move ahead fast. The chief reason is that industry, which has just about doubled in size during the great boom, needs far more bosses than it has had time to train. But the corporations, having solved the mechanical problems of mass production, are finding it harder to learn the things they must know to mass-produce the executives they direly need...
...Denver, early one morning this week, some 900 people climbed aboard a special train for Pueblo, Colo., 120 miles away; another special train pulled into Pueblo from Chicago. The visitors joined a crowd of 4,000 to watch the official opening of a $30 million steel pipe mill, first of its kind west of the Mississippi. With a capacity of 150,000 net tons a year, the new mill will turn out seamless pipe for a ready-made market: the oil industry of western U.S. and Canada...