Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enjoyed TIME'S [Sept. 27] coverage of Earl Warren's special train . . . Reference to the ''engine backing slowly," however, may prompt some of the West's railfan enthusiasts to write you,* since the train was powered over the Sierra not by a backward-operating locomotive but by one of this company's powerful cab-ahead-type locomotives...
...most stable carrier service is the railroad. The New Haven offers hourly rides to New York City, whence a train leaves for the Point at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow morning, arriving at 1:08 p.m.. The last train from Boston that makes connections with the 10:45 leaves at 12:45 a.m. tomorrow, which will allow you to catch Sarah Vaughn here tonight...
...lead to an attrition rate of over 25 percent in every West Point class, but the Staff of the Academy feels that such a high proportion of losses is justified in consideration of the peenliar goals of the institution. The purpose of a military organization is not primarily to train citizens, but rather to provide for national defense through the creation of effective soldiers...
...days after his replacement arrived from Warsaw, the ex-consul bade them all farewell and proudly displayed two tickets for home, via Venice. Boarding the train next day, he bundled his family off before it reached Venice, roared across the Swiss border in a taxi and hopped the first plane to Johannesburg, South Africa. At the same time the Czechoslovakian Ministry in Rome became impervious to telephone bells. Czech Minister Jan Pauliny-Toth had slipped across the Swiss border, London bound...
Local Angle. It is Tufty's boast (among many) that "I was the only woman writer on the Dewey train in 1944" (not Counting LIFE Researcher Lee Eitingon). The trip paid off with more than news. When the train was wrecked at Castle Rock, Wash., Tufty suffered broken ribs and passed out (Westbrook Pegler passed the smelling salts). She came out of it with a $3,000 settlement, which she used to fix up her National Press Building cubicle with yellow curtains and a fancy circular desk...