Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the same young man was ignominiously booted out as Vice Chancellor, his private army was ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg the swashbuckling Prince was made Patron of the Fatherland Front's Mother's Help Section...
...providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates for their "gallantry" in capturing a Confederate railroad train at Big Shanty...
...solid centre of another of those swirling convulsions in French finance which off and on for years have threatened to dislodge the franc from gold. This time it looked as if the perennial prophets of the franc's doom might at last be right. By ship, plane and train gold was pouring out of France in huge daily shipments, which have depleted that country's gold stocks by $200,000,000 in the past fortnight, by about $500,000,000 in the past year. These sums did not represent withdrawals of foreign balances in French banks. That type...
First and hardest job of "The Seeing Eye" is to train teachers. Only eight of the school's original 25 hand-picked candidates have so far survived the three-year course given by Geneticist Humphrey, who used to break wild horses at the Kansas City Stockyards. At the school's farm near Morristown, Mr. Humphrey and his staff keep prospective instructors following the dogs blindfolded for a month. From that point on the course becomes progressively more difficult. Most candidates, says Mr. Humphrey, have too little patience...
...only ungentleman man I have meet in Turkey sorry it happen as I had been thinking all day if I had to give a prize to the most respectfully men it would go to the Turks, the other men felt so sad.") She turned her most dangerous mishap (a train wreck in Czechoslovakia in which 26 people were killed) into profit, when she asked damages for a black eye, got the $200 she asked...