Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris only a perfunctory call on Premier André Tardieu was scheduled, but during this chat M. Tardieu, who had only that morning returned from Geneva, suddenly decided to catch the train Mr. MacDonald was taking for Geneva. Tremendously excited were Paris newshawks, who had just been officially informed that their Premier was not returning to Geneva when he popped out among them to say: "I can tell you nothing now messieurs, but-I am going back to Geneva...
...Peshawar, capital of the newly-created Governor's Province, natives gaped with wonder at the chuffing in of the glistening white Viceregal Train, prostrated themselves as Lord & Lady Willingdon alighted with the icy-smiling mien of ruling sovereigns. The natives stuck their brown fingers into their hairy ears as heavy British field guns shook the earth with a meaningful salute...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...
...obscure happening, ignored by headline writers 22 months ago, kicked open the throttle of a roaring train of events that has carried Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain to first political rank in Great Britain and marked him as Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's probable successor. Last week tall, husky-voiced, smoldering-eyed Chancellor Chamberlain of Britain's Exchequer read to a hushed House of Commons the Empire's first sky-high-tariff budget. That speech was sufficiently historic. The obscure happening 22 months ago was Mr. Chamberlain's discreet success in getting himself appointed chairman of the Conservative Party...
...last remaining legend of railway route last week. About his entire system, which coils like a python around South America, slithers across the islands of the Caribbean and flicks all Central America with its tail, a U. S. salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles of route, of Campania Nacional Cubana de Aviation, S. A. Though Compania Nacional will be operated as an independent unit...