Word: trainman
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...requested 34?. "According to the new ruling the fare should be. 23? But I'm willing to pay you 25?. Do you want it?" Flabbergasted, the conductor argued weakly, gave in as the other passengers began cheering Commuter Abelson. Taking his name and address, the red-faced trainman scuttled away after remarking: "You'll hear from our legal department...
Hearing cheers that greeted Herbert Hoover's arrival at Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, a woman pushed through the crowd to a trainman, asked: "Who is that...
...worrying about how they would pay for their new baby, expected any day. Ronald Gandee, 24-year-old Coast Guardsman, shouted that at last he could marry his sweetheart Frances Longley. Tony Roberts, 26, milker; Warren Wosser, 28, jobless fireman; Eddie Souza, 24. substitute fireman and James Nettro, 26. trainman, all gloated over hauls of ten to 75 lb. and dreamed their dreams...
...arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island R.R.'s one rotary snowplow was derailed, crushing a trainman to death. A rotoetcher of the New York Times froze to death in his stalled car before an automobile, a police emergency car and an ambulance could reach...
Very early New Year's morning Charles P. Ruby, railroad trainman, arose in his Washington home. He hurried to the gates of the White House. There, before dawn, he sat down on a box, began a long wait. Later another man, Arthur Demars, jobless insurance agent, came along, stood up behind Ruby. It was very cold. A White House guard came and asked what they were doing...