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From Madrid two infantry regiments, artillery and bombing planes started for Seville. General Sanjurjo sent twelve soldiers with a trainload of dvnamite to blow up the bridge at Lora del Rio. These fell captive to a squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier...
Hearing that another entire trainload of students were about to leave Shanghai, President Chiang wired orders that the train must not leave, whereat the students threatened to wreck the station. After furious wrangling Shanghai railroad officials pretended to yield. Students cheered as their train chuffed out of Shanghai station, raged when it was shunted onto a sidetrack at Chinkiang, 50 miles from Nanking, and left there by an engine which absconded before the students could lynch the fireman and engineer...
...knows, has long since reformed and led a most exemplary life. So exemplary, indeed, that some years ago those two most respectable Clevelanders, the Brothers Van Sweringen, took the Erie unto themselves in lawful wedlock. Now the brothers are taking their bride to Cleveland. Last week the first special trainload of Erie employes and families chuffed out of New York bound for the road's new headquarters in Cleveland (which will not, for the present at least, be located in the Van Sweringen's skyscraping Terminal Tower). All through August more special trains will chuff away with more...
Another (unpublished) reason for the naming was the fact that for four years Mr. Macfadden has sent to California a trainload of money-spending sightseers...
...president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp. for distribution in Minnesota. Further, the Company announced that unfilled orders were at a new all-time peak for the season, that employment and payroll were at the highest level...