Word: trainloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army took another step in retreat from Canada's subArctic. To Winnipeg from Churchill, Manitoba's port on Hudson Bay, chugged a trainload of some 200 Army engineers, quartermasters, signal men and maintenance men. They had been holed up in dreary, chilly U.S. outposts in the far north for so long (some of them for two years) that they could be forgiven for chalking on the sides of their U.S. Pullmans: "Back To God's Country...
...automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...
...Most Mexican merchants buy by the box and crate, as against the Sears trainload, and sell at the highest possible markups...
...From Paris came one explanation of the frontline shortage of smokes. Three officers and 181 G.I.'s were jailed, accused of selling a trainload of U.S. supplies (cigarets and soap) to French black marketeers. More arrests were expected...
...industrialist (Sonny Tufts) who has "kicked his way up through Detroit" comes to Washington with just one job in mind: to make as many planes as possible as fast as possible. Little things like swiping a trainload cf steel on which the Navy has priority do not upset him at all. But they do upset his delicious secretary (Olivia de Havilland). She, in turn, obscurely upsets her boss, who, with no time for love, undertakes a secret study of books like How To Be Happily Married. Miss de Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search...