Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West's most important cities, with some 300,000 inhabitants. But not until 1934 did it succeed in getting on a transcontinental railroad. That year, with a wild barbecue and great civic jubilation, Denver finally holed through the Moffat Tunnel under the continental divide, got a direct train route to the East.* Meanwhile, all other major U. S. cities were taking places in the spreading network of U. S. airlines and Denver once more found itself shortchanged...
...directly hurt, offered no objection because of an agreement with United. Last week, to everyone's surprise, Post Office Solicitor Karl A. Crowley decided in favor of the petition, set up a new and important ruling- that an airway was not to be considered a geometric line like train tracks but a "zone of influence." Therefore any airline should be allowed to serve communities within a reasonable distance of its regular route...
Awarded. To Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, 40; a decree absolute of divorce from her second husband, Ernest Aldrich Simpson; in London. In Salzburg, Austria the Duke of Windsor hustled aboard a train to join her at Monts, France...
Near Nairobi, Kenya Colony, East Africa, a rhinoceros charged an onrushing locomotive, derailed the train. Several passengers were injured, the rhino killed...
...Association of American Railroads reported that claims resulting from freight car thefts in the U. S. and Canada totaled $688,792 in 1936, lowest for any year on record. Biggest losses were in coal and coke, stolen not only by organized gangs but by individuals who needed fuel. Professional train robbers concentrated on tobacco products, jettisoned $125,000 worth during the year. Railroad police kept their record clear on liquor shipments, in which no highjacking cases have been reported since Repeal...