Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...echoing train shed behind the grimy Greek façade of London's Euston Station, Driver Ambrose Grant climbed into the cab of locomotive Number 5508. The bells of London joined the shrilling of train whistles to welcome a new year. Guard Arthur Smith switched his lamp from red to green, waved the "go ahead" to Driver Grant, and swung into the guard's van. At two minutes past midnight, Number 5508 chuffed out of the station for the run to Crewe. It pulled the first nationalized train to leave London...
...Grand Central and Pennsylvania Stations, crowds stormed train gates, until extra police details herded them into order. The thousands who panted through the scrimmage into commuter cars soon regretted their triumph. Trains got stuck as soon as they left the city...
...zone .political leaders at an interzonal unity conference in Munich. Two months later his name headed the list of prominent Soviet-zone Germans backing a proclamation that damned the Marshall Plan. Then one day in September, he and his second wife headed for Potsdam. He was seen boarding a train at the Potsdam station...
...North Bay, Ont., two Canadian Communists clambered aboard a train on which Mike Moskal, 22, a Ukrainian D.P., was riding to a new job in a northern Ontario gold mine. They told him some very unkind things about Canada, handed him propaganda leaflets, tried to talk him into giving up, going back to Russia. The same thing happened, on the same trip, to Joe Trhlen, John Sanajko, Myroslaw Blauk, 50-odd other D.P.s. Said Mike Moskal: "Was no good. Didn't like...
...diesels. Of some 5,000 diesel units now in service, two-thirds have been built by G.M. Into the once staid locomotive industry, G.M. has also breathed some of the dog-eat-dog competitive spirit of the auto industry. One of its tricks was to build its diesel-drawn Train of Tomorrow (TIME, June 2), to sell diesel travel to passengers and engines to railroads...