Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28 (APE) Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of the Supreme Court tonight doclared Lionel "The Toy" Train, ace Lampoon manager-moundsman, unconstitutional, thereby barring him from today's renewal for the annual Crime-Lampoon titanic...
...current vaudeville skit, the spurned lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
...part because much of their equipment is 40 years old," Mexican trains arrive on time so seldom that Mexicans call them las tortugas (turtles). In 1947, 162,000 passenger trains pulled in late; freight-train delays were so fantastic that the government suppressed the figures. On one 700-kilometer run, one freight "turtle" crawled in just 100 days late...
...Boston and Albany and New Haven Railroads will schedule the same train at different times. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which operates certain of the New Haven's trains through to Washington, will have them leaving New York an hour before they have arrived. And people trying to make connections between the South and North Stations in Boston will presumably have to cross the city in a minus amount of time...
Actually, this confusion exists only on paper. The 4:15 train for Springfield will really leave at 4:15, Daylight Time, and 3:15 Standard. The solution is to look at only one timetable...