Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Express train D-961 slid out of Salzburg at 9:53 p.m. bound for Munich. It was 13 minutes late-not too bad for the holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing...
...steep inclines, around mountain curves at 75 m.p.h., D-961, spitting sparks and smoke from the wheels, zipped along until at last, 39 miles out of Salzburg, a 21-year-old diner steward took matters into his own hands, pulled the emergency brake. As the train screeched to a halt at Prien, Stationmaster Johann Birner, roused by frantic phone calls from down the line, said to Oskar: "LokomotivfÜhrer, I think you are drunk...
Khrushchev, ready to be the life of the party all by himself, stepped down from the train at Berlin's Ostbahnhof to plant chummy kisses on both cheeks of Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and Premier Otto Grotewohl. With Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the agile Armenian, at his elbow as Bulganin's tardy standin, Khrushchev marched confidently through the station to inspect a bristling guard of Russian-helmeted East Germans, and take the cheers of some 10,000 Berliners conscripted from their government offices and factories for the occasion...
...tried to fight inflation by refusing a wage increase and instead cut steel prices by $1.25 a ton, the cost-of-living index spurted two percentage points during the following three months. After three months U.S. Steel realized "we might as well have tried to stop an express train with a peashooter. So we had to rescind our price action, increase the pay of our workers and try to catch up with the [price] parade we had fallen so far behind." Perversely, the cost of living then declined...
...built up his firm by producing steel rails and the first seamless steel train tires for the railroads that were pushing across Europe and the American West. Krupp also turned out steel cannon, but for many years had little success in selling them until German militarists finally awoke to the fact that the new cannon were easier to load and more accurate and durable than the traditional bronze models. With Krupp cannon, Prussia defeated Austria in 1866 and France in 1871. By 1887 Krupp had sold 24,567 big guns to 21 nations. Alfred Krupp became known in Essen...