Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five o'clock-the buildings erupt: "My train, my bus, my subway, my ferry. Got a dime? Lend me a dime. See you tomorrow. I got to hurry, I miss my train. What time...
Coming from a land where a half-day doesn't mean anything, he finds that one minute means the loss of a very important train. Millions of automobiles and several thousand taxis cruise the city in all directions-everyone in a crazy race to get somewhere (where, nobody knows). Upper highways, level highways, underground highways, tunnels, bridges connecting island with cities, suburbs with suburbs, states with states-all with hundreds of signs: "Keep to the left . . . Pay toll here . . . Pay toll there . . . Stop . . . Slow . . . Minimum speed . . . Maximum speed . . .Traffic merging . . . Low clearance." Watch for this; watch for that; unlawful...
...Regency Act. said Rab Butler, should be altered. The plan is to make Queen Elizabeth's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, regent. The Queen feels it proper that Prince Charles's father, not his 22-year-old aunt, should train the boy for the responsibilities of the throne and shoulder those responsibilities as regent, if need...
RAILROADER Robert Young's "Train X," the low-slung, speedy (up to 150 m.p.h.) train which Young thinks will cut costs drastically and transform passenger travel, will soon be built. The train will have shorter cars, a far lower center of gravity than conventional trains. To build it, Young's Chesapeake & Ohio is teaming up with the New York Central, which is 10% owned by the C. & O. The deal is the first evidence of cooperation between C. & O. and the Central, in which Bob Young thinks he should have a directorship...
...when the good news came and seven of them were given their freedom, demanded by Britain and approved by the Soviet Union. At the Korea-Chinese frontier, Deane managed to smuggle out the notes for the book he finished two months later. In Mukden, they boarded "a beautiful blue train" decorated with Picasso doves -the "Peace Express." They were headed for Moscow, then home...