Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workingmen, old men, shawled grandmothers, women with babies. "There's Lindy!" went up an eager cry. Col. Lindbergh pulled down the window-shade of his limousine. The procession wove its slow way through Manhattan streets to the Grand Central Terminal, where the coffin was placed aboard a special train, carried to Cleveland for interment...
...shall employ a double-track system, each track in a separate tunnel," said Don Luis. "Then there will be no possibility of a complete tie-up of the service, even should a train be wrecked...
...liquid steel does not ordinarily waste itself on the pit floor. When steel-cooks know their business, the brew from the kettle furnace pours not into the pit, but into a many-tonned ladle. Filled to its brim and slobbering over, the ladle is moved along over a train of flatcars in which ingot-molds stand up some seven feet from the car-floors. From mold to mold the ladle hastens, filling each with its white-hot content. When the ladle has gone the length of the train, the row of ingot-molds glow in the darkness like monuments...
...sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid $50,000 for a special train to carry them there for the great night. Kansas City had found Marion Talley. Kansas City had launched her, backed her. Kansas City was there to share in the glory...
...cylinder down-strokes. No time is needed to get up steam, as in the locomotor (15 min.) or the usual locomotive (30 min.). Operating cost is, by report, one-fifth that of ordinary Diesels. The unit is 10% to 15% lighter, and powerful enough to draw a train. Danish railroads are testing it. Three new Danish ocean liners may adopt...