Word: trainloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, got ready promises of a refuge for Batista and his cohorts. In fierce street fighting that killed 60, Guevara whipped a dispirited army garrison of 3,000 men and took Santa Clara (pop. 150,000), the rebels' first big city. A trainload of 150 troops sent by Batista refused even to get out of the railroad cars. Batista was through...
...neighbors are each other's best customers, but it is a chronic Canadian complaint that Canada gets the short end of the bargain. By the trainload and shipload, Canadian newsprint, nickel, aluminum feed the U.S. economy. The Consolidated Denison mine in Blind River, Ont. contains twice as much uranium as all the known U.S. reserves, and its entire output through 1961 is earmarked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In turn, the U.S. ships industrial machinery, automobiles and consumer goods to the north, and Canada's trade deficit with the U.S. last year...
...amid the worst of last winter's snows, Nannarella stole a march on the other captains and queens by bribing a railroad official to sidetrack a trainload of potatoes from Germany for her own use. "Providence will provide," she told the other captains when they began to wonder what had happened to the potatoes. But as winter wore on and Providence seemed to provide only for Nannarella, the others grew suspicious. At last, her archrival, a tall, handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told...
Behind a gold-painted locomotive, a trainload of G.M. brass rolled into Flint, Mich, last week to celebrate the production of G.M.'s 50 millionth car. While G.M. President Harlow Curtice looked on, a gold-plated Chevrolet rolled off the assembly line. At lavish luncheons in 52 hotels scattered through the U.S., and in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, another 15,000 invited guests watched the festivities over the most extensive closed-circuit TV network ever rigged...
...without friends, however, and the next day they began arriving in Washington. From McCarthy's own Wisconsin came a pitiful little caravan (which had been stalled for a night in Kenosha with an ailing engine coil) consisting of two cars and a truck. From New York came a trainload of Mc-Carthyites headed by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, director of the American Jewish League Against Communism, whose slogan is: "Strike terror into the hearts of Flanders and Malenkov." One man wore a white suit and brandished a butterfly net, aping Joe's suggestion that Vermont's Senator Ralph...