Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to file from Kavalla, but the telegraph official had never seen a cable in English before and his apparatus seemed to date from pre-Edison days. I tried to get back to Salonika by rail, but the train blew up before I got in. I tried to go by bus, but the busses were not running because one of them had smashed up on a mine the day before. The airplane was the only solution, but, although we went to the airfield daily, the plane did not come in until Thursday...
...Palestine powder train burned shorter & shorter. Encouraged by their easy success at Haifa (TIME, May 3), the Jews attacked Arab Jaffa and began to attack Arab quarters in Jerusalem. But the British, who wanted to win back Arab friends in the last days of the mandate, decided that there must be no more Haifas. They beat the Jews back from Jaffa, ordered a cease-fire in Jerusalem suburbs, and rushed reinforcements from Cyprus, Malta and Suez to hold the Jews...
Meanwhile the Bow Street birdcage was shaken by the sudden illness of perennial hurler Clem Woop, stricken with an acute attack of two-line gagging. "I've got the inside track now," smirked Lionel (The Toy) Train, roundhouse-righthander, who vowed he had never been cornered...
...comment was not lost on National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who had long been aware that his candidate was most effective when speaking off the cuff. He renewed an old campaign to get the President to take a long, leisurely transcontinental train trip...
...last week Reginald Turner, 49, a tired, timid, Veterans Administration employee of Winston-Salem, N.C., arrived in Manhattan with his wife. They were whisked from the train into a dizzy whirlwind of broadcasts, playgoing, wining & dining. Soon, the Turners and their four sons would embark on a South American cruise. By selling the television sets and diamond rings that had been dumped in their laps, they would pay off a lot of old bills...