Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scouts of America (membership: 2,221,157) celebrated their 39th anniversary with a report to the nation: during 1948 the Scouts collected 500,000 pounds of food for the Friendship Train, gathered 781,396,000 pounds of paper and planted 1,137,856 trees...
Within one hour after midnight one night last week, every bus, streetcar and subway train on Philadelphia's 1,500 miles of transit system had been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...
...boss of the small Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad, Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...
...Sample (on the train): "Begins itself conversation. Russian equals English equals square root of minus 1. French he has not; German do I forget. But of gesture we both (fortunately) are made ... he is-quite like a child and totally unlike a childish person...
March with Mr. Soviet. The Reds marched 6,000 miles. They passed through twelve provinces, crossed 18 mountain ranges, and 24 rivers. Intermittently they fought with Nationalists, but they got away each time, with heavy losses. The marchers had started out with a huge train of supplies, but they had to abandon most of it on the way. It is said that Mao Tse-tung, then married to his third wife (Ho Tse-chun, a schoolteacher), abandoned their five children on the way, leaving them in the care of peasants...