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...three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team passed by. The hungry trainload confiscated its provender. Rescuers brought food and medicine by horse and hand sleighs. Finally the blizzards subsided. Three engines managed to break through the drifts and help the first three lug the typhoid victims to hospitals. Only one patient died...
...appeared to have squelched the revolution south of Mexico City?was commanded by General Juan Andreu. now chief of staff to General Calles. Leaving the Vera Cruz situation quiet in the hands of a subordinate, General Andreu hopped by airplane to the rebel area in the north. Trainload after trainload of artillery (on flat cars) and soldiers (in box cars) which had started from Mexico City for Vera Cruz were switched back and rushed to aid General Calles...
...trainload of New York delegates paused at Albany. Governor Smith hand-shook on the platform. When he came to John William Davis, the Democracy's last nominee, he grinned and said: "So you're on your...
Reds. French Communists were content during the Paris excitement to demonstrate passively at Clichy, Soviet-infested suburb of Paris. But one midnight, as a trainload of legionaries rumbled along between Cannes and Nice, a considerable section of railroad track suddenly leaped and twisted upwards in the dark, wrenched out of place and heaped with rocky debris by a powerful explosive. The legionaries had escaped disaster by five minutes, owing to their
...Patrick's abduction was by a whole trainload of cinema folk hurrying to a coast convention. Mr. Flinn's recovery was rapid and happy. And to reward virtue in true cinema style, Mr. DeMille and friends took Dr. Patrick for a thorough inspection of filmland, including even a Mack Sennett bathing beauty scene. And they gave him, together with his ticket back to Marceline, Mo., a fee whose proportions will not be approached until Marceline, Mo., breaks out with simultaneous epidemics of mumps, colic, babies and pink...