Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industrial Ambassador. Nine agents of the Ogpu, or NKVD as J. Stalin now prefers to call Soviet secret police, went last week with Ambassador Davies in the special train put at his disposal to tour Soviet industrial centres in the primarily agricultural Ukraine. His private car, furnished free by the Government, was what Russians now know as a "Commissar's Saloon Car," for really big Reds today have a private car thrown in with their State jobs. There was an ordinary sleeping car for the NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night...
...saloon at 5:20 a. m. on the morning of the earthquake, "Boys, it looks like the end of the world!" Oldtime San Francisco Hearst-readers recalled this light-hearted spirit as typical of the early Examiner in the days when young Publisher Hearst would hire a special train to get his news crew to the scene of a fire; when publisher & reporters had fabulous fun at Hearst's house in Sausalito; when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils), first of the expert Hearst tearjerkers, wrote her classic sob stories about "Little Jim," the crippled child...
...there first and was pointing. Brilliant Joe stopped squarely in the middle of the track to "back" him (honor the other dog's find by pointing too), as a stanch dog should always do. Just then Mr. Chance, who was about 200 yd. behind, sighted a long freight train puffing down the track. Frantically he ran forward, shouting and waving at the engineer, pointing to the motionless figure ahead. The engineer put on his brakes, too late. Brilliant Joe was still holding his point as the freight ground him under...
...Sped By Train...
...physician's treatment in the accident which resulted after a ski broke in a fast telemark, Conant was rushed to the home of his hosts, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Martin of Plainfield, Vermont, who were with him on the scene of the catastrophe, and thence by train to Boston. Current belief is that he will be confined to his home on Quincy Street for several days...