Word: trainloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marching on the city. Christian, the son of an American doctor, and his Chinese friend Big Tiger, both twelve, venture out to fly a kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home by the only safe route - a 3,000-mile detour through the Gobi Desert. On their tremendous journey they have adventures enough to impress Tom Sawyer: a Living Buddha trusts them with a secret message, a great bandit prince bows...
Residents of the outside world are inclined to look upon the citizens of New York's Westchester County as the mink, martini & money set, with hardly a petty thief in a trainload. Last week George A. Williams, the New York Central Railroad's station agent at Chappaqua in northern Westchester, shattered that illusion. Agent Williams had made a painful discovery: he was losing as much as $12 a week from the "honor system" cash box on his newspaper stand. Williams bored a hole in the ceiling above the newsstand, poked the lens of a camera through, and took...
Only one scene is worthwhile. The bereaved wife, still hoping her husband is alive, goes to the railroad station to meet the last trainload of released prisoners. With alternate shorts of ragged, bearded men finding their families and the despairing woman looking for her husband, Lindtberg achieves a rare atmosphere of suspense, joy, and tragedy...
...good grandfather went down south in 1917 and brought 'em up by the trainload," he bawled. "They wooed, and they cooed, and they multiplied." He took cracks at the "Abie's Irish Rose boys." He charged that Recall Leader Charles A. Wagner had walked out on his first wife, "taking all the wedding presents with him." For good measure, Little Orvie also belabored the Dearborn police ("one drives while the other sleeps") and firemen ("one day on, two days...
...Communist front-line activity. G.I.s had started calling the Wonsan-Majon road, 50 miles behind the front, "Ambush Alley," and marine planes were diverted from front-line missions to protect supply convoys. The guerrillas burned the town of Kapyong and seized and terrorized Chunchon. Near Seoul they ambushed a trainload of Turkish troops, killing one, wounding two. Syngman Rhee's Minister of Home Affairs averred that no less than 40,000 guerrillas were operating below the 38th parallel...