Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the identity of the royal party still a close secret, His Majesty boarded the Orient Express for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Clear across France the train's route was guarded by French soldiers standing within sight of each other along the roadbed...
Last year only six freighters visited Churchill. The five-year average of grain exported is a mere 3,000,000 bu. The town, itself, once planned to become a metropolis, remains a huddle of shacks on the naked shingle beside the Bay. The Hudson Bay Railroad runs but one train a week...
That evening he boarded a train at St. Andrews, N. B. His farewell to Lieut. Governor Murray MacLaren of New Brunswick: "I hope to come back next year even if it is in the role of a private citizen." Next morning in Quebec he was welcomed aboard his train as a visiting sovereign. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour...
...Lord Tweedsmuir to the White House. Then the official party adjourned for luncheon to the Governor-General's summer home in the Citadel. Afterwards there were private conferences on public problems common to the two countries, a sightseeing tour through showers, a formal tea and a departure by train via Montreal for Vermont...
...gunman, Bass did not amount to much. His great claim to fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock...