Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maguire declared: "There is no history of enteric at Lourdes, and no blame whatever attaches to the ship, which was given a clean bill of health before leaving Glasgow and before leaving Le Yerdon on the homeward journey. The whole thing boils down to the train journey from Lourdes to Le Yerdon. The germ may have been in the food or water taken on the way back at the wayside stations. ... I have no doubt about it that the cause of the infection is to be found on the train journey back from Lourdes...
...Johnson (Y), 43 ft. 1in., 1; R. Train (Y), 42ft. 6 1-4in, 2; F. A. Gentry (O). 42ft., 3; J. M. Baillieu...
...Southern Pacific train from the West had not been six hours late rolling into New Orleans late last fortnight, 356 men, women & children aboard a coastwise steamer would not have spent 48 hours face to face with Death in one of the most furious hurricanes that ever struck the Florida Keys. And if a Florida East Coast train had been dispatched an hour earlier, 410 other men, women & children might still be alive...
...French Reef. Scheduled to sail from New Orleans to New York at 11 a.m., the 8,000-ton Southern Pacific-Morgan Liner Dixie waited until 6 p. m. for 25 vacationists whose train had been held up by a Texas washout. More than a quarter of a day behind schedule, the Dixie dropped down through the Mississippi Delta, swung out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard her was a crew of 123 and 233 passengers, including three popularity contest winners from Pennsylvania, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, some honeymooners and an assortment of trippers and travelers taking advantage of the cheap...
...ambitions, spent an idyllic summer in Germany. Skeptical and enlightened as he was, he could not believe that the War could be serious or prolonged, or that it would disrupt his life with Zena. He learned it when the authorities unceremoniously loaded the pair on a train, shipped them across the frontier...