Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line No. 8 was stopped by a red block signal while just ahead a freight backed into a siding to clear the main line. No. 8's flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed from red (stop) to yellow (caution). An air whistle tooted in his cab as part of the automatic train control system...
Near Troy, Ohio when a train crashed into her horse & buggy, killing the horse, Mrs. Anna Idemiller, 71, seized an iron ring on the front of the locomotive, held on until the train stopped, escaped with scalp injuries and a broken...
...French-born proprietor of a Paterson, N. J. dye works. Dyer Strengs was struck by Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year before. He decided to adopt Peter, arranged for a six-week trial after which he might educate him, train him in the dye business, make him his heir. In July Peter Christopolus traveled East amid much publicity. The Strengs posed with him this way and that for photographers, Mr. Strengs accentuating his role of fond papa, and Daughter Jeanne Strengs, 14, hovering affectionately. They took Peter, rosy-cheeked...
...Immediately the herd stampeded and milled around in every direction, as they didn't seem to know where the danger was. But within two or three seconds a big bull picked us out and came for us like an express train...
...break out in both countries. Positively the last Great War (here Author Wells grows optimistic again) will begin in 1940, will peter out in pestilence, famine, revolution and exhaustion ten years later. Its immediate cause: a Polish Jew with an ill-fitting dental plate. A passenger on a crowded train halted in Danzig station, he modestly turns his face to the window to struggle with the refractory plate. His facial contortions are misinterpreted by a hot-headed Nazi on the platform ... an argu- ment . . . the Nazi shoots the Jew . . . the war-dogs are slipped...