Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill went right on collecting more & more letters and affidavits. One day last summer he took the train to London and charged straight into Britain's Judge Advocate General's office. "I had no appointment," he recalls, "but they let me in. They were very nice to me, and they listened." Slowly and ponderously the machinery of justice began to roll, and last fortnight Torturers Kinoshita and Yoshida heard their sentences before a British court: life imprisonment for the former, twelve years for the latter...
...Hurry, Hurry!" Our train chuffed into Pengpu, 100 miles above Nanking, at dusk after a seven-hour trip. All along the steel corridor-single track except for station sidings-military traffic flowed heavily. Every railside town and village crawled with soldiers. Dumps of rice and munitions crowded rail platforms and yards. Bridges bristled with mudbrick pillboxes, defensive moats and brushworks...
Both the New York Central and New Haven Railroads will run extra trains starting Thursday. The New Haven's plans are still incomplete, but the New York Central will send two additional sections along with each regularly scheduled train...
...other hand, Pearson's showmanship and love of spectacles combined with his Quaker faith to produce the Friendship Train. He first voiced the idea, and spent thousands of dollars to get it rolling across the U.S. last year, gathering up 700 carloads of food (worth $40 million) for France and Italy. It was not only potent propaganda for the U.S. in the East-West battle, but a memorable and characteristically Quaker act. Said the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond, of the Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month...
Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...