Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Belgian family living near the German frontier crammed its movable possessions hastily into suitcases, took the first train and fled when Adolf Hitler ruptured the Treaty of Versailles by sending German soldiers goose-stepping into the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). Last week a few of the boldest of such Belgians had gone back to their homes. They felt excited as they looked across the frontier and saw German soldiers standing guard for the first time since the Rhineland was demilitarized 17 years ago. What small Belgium wanted to know was whether Great Britain could be counted...
...Bridge is to be opened to automobiles about next November, but probably not to trains until January 1938. The world's greatest over-water roadway has two decks, the top one for six automobile lanes, the bottom for three truck lanes and two train tracks to be used by Southern Pacific interurban trains and Key Route tramways. That does not mean that Pullman passengers from New York will now be able to ride through to San Francisco. Only lightweight suburban railway cars, no regular main-line trains, will be allowed to cross Bay Bridge. There are no pedestrian walks...
...rampant rivers tossed off their bridges, gulped in railway roadbeds, swamped highways, transportation throughout the region was practically at a standstill. Railroads canceled many a train, sent others chugging cautiously over competitors' tracks. Hardest hit was the Pennsylvania, whose four-track main line cuts through the heart of the Alleghenies. Pennsylvania canceled all service on its own tracks west of Lancaster, Pa. The last break, near Altoona, Pa., was not repaired and through service resumed until three days later. B. & O. stopped all trains west of Washington...
Late one afternoon last week a lone man, following a porter carrying his bags, traipsed through Washington's Union Station among the crowd hurrying to catch the 6 o'clock train to Manhattan. In his seat in the parlor car he was just one more traveler. Those who failed to recognize his square-cut features, his shag of greying hair, his solid bulk, little dreamed that they were witnessing the departure of a famed citizen on the greatest adventure of his life. William Edgar Borah, after 30 years of uncertain thought, was for the first time actually starting...
...Youngstown meeting was important if not very inspiring. Snow kept away several hundred reserved-seat holders. Instead of the 4,500 people expected, 2,400 were in the audience. Worse still, Candidate Borah was in need of the night's rest he had lost on the train. Final damper was the Machine Age. Like many another politician, Senator Borah has accepted the adage that modern campaign is a duel by radio. In one of his first major radio trials, in Brooklyn last January, his friends found the great orator from Idaho far from impressive. The trouble was, he thought...