Word: trainloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami and New Orleans, horse-clippers were busy snipping winter coats from thoroughbreds, which were arriving by the trainload. Publicity men in loud jackets and louder shirts were booming next week's opening of the winter racing season. Cagey Hirsch Jacobs, who has trained the most winners for eleven of the past 13 years, prepared to head south-too late to do his 1946 record any good. He had won a mere 97 races this year...
...Circus, which had been stuck in New York during the coal strike, got stuck again-this time in Boston, while a baby giraffe was born in a tent. In Lancaster, Pa., city firemen were routed out at 4:30 a.m., had to couple up long hoses to water a trainload of 2,000 thirsty hogs. There was chicken trouble, too-hundreds of automatic incubators were hatching thousands of eggs every hour. Unable to ship the new arrivals, owners gloomily planned mass drownings...
...month ago a special trainload of 400 staffers, alumni and chums had trooped out to Eagle Bay, Joe Patterson's 108-acre estate overlooking the Hudson at Ossining, N.Y. The party was not like the old days. The grave-eyed host lay in his sickbed upstairs, suffering from the liver disorder that took his life this week. He had never fully recovered from a pneumonia attack that laid him low last November...
Call Me Mister slows down here & there to the dreamy pace of a sentimental journey-Joe, overseas, thinking of the corner drugstore; a trainload of returning servicemen chanting nevermore-to-roam, going-home blues. But mostly the show clatters briskly along, ribbing everything...
...loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...