Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent supplies entering the plants by rail, strikers put ties on the tracks, threatened the train crews until they retired "in fear of bodily injury." This brought the railroads into the picture: Pennsylvania, B & O and Erie. They appealed to the courts for an injunction to prevent strikers from blocking their tracks. S.W.O.C. counsel replied that the railroads were not acting on their own behalf but merely as a catspaw for the steel companies...
Catholic priests in Germany, to assert their right to train their own flocks, last week prepared to celebrate a "Sunday of Youth" with mass meetings of Catholic youngsters...
Fred Snite was laid in this machine. Then he was obliged to learn an utterly new mode of life, which he learned so well that last week, still in his respirator, he could begin a 9,000-mi. voyage by truck, train and ship from Peiping to Chicago...
...elevator dropped to the ground level where another extension cord restarted the motor. When the invalid recovered his breath, he was rolled onto a motor truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator was connected to this mobile supply, and the truck proceeded to a special train which Fred Snite Sr. had hired. A baggage coach contained a gasoline-driven dynamo and an extra respirator in case Fred Jr.'s broke down...
From the moving train, travelers can make hotel or other reservations, converse with anyone they wish to reach, play the markets, etc., by merely stepping into the train radiotelephone booth and asking the operator to establish a radio-telephone connection with anyone anywhere in Germany. This train radio-telephone service is widely used and much appreciated by travelers...