Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived and worked in a large bedroom at the British embassy (he insisted on having a second bed installed, explaining that he often got too warm at night and liked to change to a fresh one). After hearing Truman's State of the Union speech, Churchill took the train to New York, spent a quiet day and a half receiving visitors (including the Duke of Windsor) at his old friend Bernard Baruch's apartment on East 66th Street. Then he went on to Canada, leaving Anthony Eden behind in Washington for more talks with Dean Acheson...
...would get out of China themselves. But they packed the bones with their own gear, shipped everything on the Manchurian railway and planned to meet an American transport at the coastal town of Chinwangtao. A hospital corpsman was designated as escort for the bones, but the escort missed the train. A few days later marines, train, and transport were all in Japanese hands...
...traveling office in two private railroad cars, with dining room and living quarters, spent most of his time riding the Southern's 7,571 miles of rails in 13 states. Only once was he temporarily sidetracked; his private cars were in a train wreck near Atlanta, in which Norris suffered a fractured skull and broken leg. He hustled business personally among big & little shippers, helped lure scores of new industries to set up shop along the line. Norris' humanizing efforts took another form. Whenever he breezed into one of the Southern's branch offices, he gave women...
...road's switch to diesel locomotives, which he calls "the greatest single railroad improvement in modern times." When the switch is completed in March, Southern will have 847 diesels. DeButts now plans to turn his efforts toward modernizing yards and streamlining freight handling. Says he: "Every time a train enters an old-fashioned yard, before it can get out on the line again, the average competing truck has made a couple of hundred miles on the highway...
...injured Wilde, a sexy elephant stunt-girl (Gloria Grahame) moves in on the eligible Heston. A jealous Prussian elephant trainer (Lyle Bettger), foiled by Heston when trying to plant an elephant's foot on Gloria's pretty face, joins a plot to halt the circus train and rob the cashier's car. He causes a gargantuan train wreck-for which De Mille demolished full-sized trains (TIME, May 7). The wreck not only awakens Betty's love for Heston and her organizing genius in effecting the circus's comeback, but unmasks a clown (James Stewart...