Word: traine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the tone of the film may be summed up in the scene where the wagon train starts across the great prairies. A bearded pioneer splits the air with a cry, and his covered wagon charges forward; the second Conestoga lurches ahead into the sunset. Then Hope hollers, and his team sprints forward. Too bad he forgets to hitch them to the wagon...
When he flew home last fall to give Harry Truman a dramatic up-to-the-minute briefing on his campaign train, it was no secret that "Beedle" Smith was thinking seriously of getting out. At the time, most observers expected that a new President would make it easy for him to do so in January...
...Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. put to work last week a machine that set up the rumble of revolution in coal mining. In 60 seconds, the "Continuous Miner" of the Joy Manufacturing Co. (TIME, April 5) ripped two tons of coal off the pitface and loaded it into a shuttle train...
Around the Table. The heroine is a chipper, bright-blue-eyed great-grandmother (five times over) named Mrs. Catherine Marsh, born 88 years ago this Christmas Day. When her husband, a traveling electrical engineer, was killed by a Coney Island subway train in 1905, Mrs. Marsh was left with seven sons and two daughters (the oldest son at home was 16), no insurance and a $4,500 mortgage on the Ohio farm where they lived...
...Southerner in the Northern army he could expect little confidence to be placed in him. He had moreover recently stepped from a train and wrenched his back and could honestly have claimed a physical disability. He nevertheless renewed his Union oath. His sisters in Virginia turned his picture to the wall and refused to discuss...