Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly at noon on the appointed day, the President's special train, after considerable backing & filling in the yards, chuffed into Des Moines' Rock Island railroad station. Cavalry bugles blared and police sirens shrieked as the Presidential procession moved off on a circuitous and well-advertised route which took it along all the city's principal streets on its way to the Capitol. From the back seat of an open car, President Roosevelt smiled and waved his Panama hat at the cheering crowds, well sprinkled with Landon sunflower buttons, which lined the curbs...
...Istanbul the greatest statesman in the Near East, Kamal Ataturk, who overthrew the Turkish Sultanate and Caliphate, abolished the fez and is rapidly making the Turkish Republic a powerful and modern State, undertook to send the British royal party comfortably home overland. For this purpose the Turkish Presidential Train was transferred from Asia to Europe by ferrying it across the Bosporus. Quitting the $1,350,000 chartered royal yacht Nahlin and chuffing into Bulgaria, Edward VIII in a general way made for London, giving out that his whereabouts will include some further vacationing in Vienna...
...diligently prayerful Methodist and a tireless preacher of Spartan virtues to indulgent Chinese is enterprising Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the best man to head the Chinese Government in living memory. Last week he connected the Chicago of his country with its New Orleans, sent the first train chuffing 700 miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...
Entrusted with money to buy guns for the peasants' revolt, O'Hara lets himself be diverted from his purpose by a pretty girl (Madeleine Carroll) who persuades him to travel by train instead of plane. When this turns out to be part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan...
Progress and Advance are what U. S. railroads are now going in for heavily to resell the public train travel. The Century's two new cars marked Pullman Co.'s boldest innovation in design since the Pintsch gas era. An articulated unit made of alloy steel and aluminum, Advance & Progress together weigh no more than one standard Pullman...