Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most famous authors, Eugene O='Neill and Robinson Jeffers. While they haggled, Cerf piled into "a rickety plane," flew to Sea Island, Ga., and signed up O'Neill. Ah, Wilderness! soon became the first major Random House book. "And then," says Cerf brightly, "I took a train to Carmel, Calif., and signed up Jeffers." Shortly after that he went to England and called upon George Bernard Shaw, who had always refused to let his plays be included in anthologies. When Cerf cannily ob served that he was publishing O'Neill, Shaw relented, agreed to let Cerf have...
Friedman maintains that a volunteer army could be smaller than the present army because the reenlistment rate would be higher and so fewer men would be needed to train new inductees. Better pay during a volunteer's career might lessen the political appeal of veterans benefits which now amount to some billion dollars a year...
...group of students and teachers met in Cambridge this weekend to form a national organization that will train students and teachers to run for political office...
After chugging through a lecture on corporate finance at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., New York Central Railroad President Alfred Perlman, 64, had some rueful observations about the finances of the iron-horse business. "Most people don't like to go somewhere tied down by a train schedule," he said. "This means going by car. It's only when it's snowing that you like to go back to the good old days on trains." Then with a wry smile, he admitted: "I have a pass on the New Haven Railroad, but to get there, I drove...
...Boston's 1950 Brinks robbery involved $2,775,395.12, but only $1,218,211.29 was in cash. The world's biggest cash robbery was Britain's 1963 Great Train Robbery...