Word: traine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ford went right to work. His Middle East man, Walter McKee, after talks with Israeli purchasing agents, sounded out the possibilities of an assembly plant near Haifa. The plant would import U.S. foremen and technicians to train unskilled Israeli labor in U.S. production techniques, wherever possible use Israel-made goods for parts...
...Rattlesnake Dick" Barter was. His gang held up a Wells Fargo mule train near Shasta in 1855 and carried off $80,000 worth of gold dust...
...Tokyo suburb one day last week, near the spot where a sabotaged railroad train had just killed six people, a ramshackle automobile flying a tattered red Rising Sun flag drew up with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
Trilby & Tweeds. The title made only a slight change in his double routine. Before each session of the House of Lords, the new peer, in his crumpled tweeds and battered old trilby, bought a third-class railway ticket and hopped a train for London. After that he returned to Oxford-to his wife, who refused to share his title ("We are simple people," she said), to his lunches of cold mutton and prunes, and to his troubled surveillance of some of Balliol's new postwar, government-aided scholarship students. Once he told the House of Lords...
Said Camp Director James Christian Pfohl: "[Up to now] imported music has peeled off Southern hides like bark off a slippery elm . . . We do not have a topflight professional music school in the South. We hope the students we train will lift the South's musical life...