Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank loan. Then the company approached Walt Disney Productions of Hollywood, secured permission to make a Mickey Mouse handcar to scoot around Lionel tracks. During the winter 235,000 were sold at $1 apiece. President Cowen, nearly always one jump ahead of U. S. railroad men, streamlined his trains. At last year's Century of Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific's crack M-IOOOI-the first toy train built absolutely to scale (1/45th). Orders began streaming in by the thousands. Last week in Newark, U. S. District Judge Guy L. Fake...
...Rubislaw, Governor and Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London, Master Gunner of St. James's Park, returning to England with his wife and his daughter from a tour of Australia, landed one icy day at Vancouver, B. C. He tried to get an eastbound train, found Canadian railways buried by snowslides, torn by washouts. Vastly annoyed, Lord Milne, wife & daughter took a train which veered south across the U. S. border, stopped at Seattle. Shortly newshawks came, bothered them with questions. Snapped His Lordship: "Yes, this is the first time I've been in Seattle...
Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...
...fare, accommodations at the Hotel Lincoln for Saturday night, and an orchestra seat in the National Theatre. The streamlined "Within the Gates" Special leaves the South Stations about noon Saturday, and returns from New York about midnight Sunday. As an added inducement, a diner has been added to the train for lunch...
...Woollcott. Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker proposed that he reduce his contributions to one a month, a thought which Mr. Woollcott could not endure. With him, it had to be all or nothing, and therefore nothing. He sent his resignation to Editor Ross, immediately hopped a train to Chicago to escape arguments. Well aware that the Woollcott page was among the most popular features of his magazine, Editor Ross peppered him with telegrams, but Woollcott was adamant. He got what he wanted: indefinite suspension...