Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away something shrieked. Then the dull glow of a headlight stabbed out of the fog. Before the terrified actors could move, straight through them and their bus plowed the special train of Realmleader Adolf Hitler, traveling at more than 100 kilometers per hour...
...Fuhrer's train was brought to an emergency stop nearly two kilometers from the collision. Alighting with Economic Dictator Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg, Herr Hitler strode back through the fog. At the fatal crossing he found 13 corpses. Seven other actors were groaning in pain. Above the dead Realmleader Hitler made his supreme gesture, the Nazi salute. Then, strong-nerved, he plunged into the work of collecting bits of mangled bodies and arranging them under sheets. This took an hour. The seven injured were taken away to hospitals, one dying en route. A fresh...
Hoping to continue on its victorious road, the Varsity stickmen embark tonight on the 8.45 o'clock train for Montreal where they will play the first of a two-game home and home series with McGill. The second game with McGill will be played on the Boston Garden ice on January...
Toward Geneva the train of French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval was chuffing. Day before this crass politician had been considerably surprised when his subordinate in Rome, deft and subtle Ambassador de Chambrun, managed to achieve a fairly satisfactory agreement with German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell as to post-plebiscite procedure in the Saar, if it votes to rejoin Germany (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week M. Laval was due for another surprise...
Josef Stalin had brought the corpse of Dear Friend Sergei personally from Leningrad on a special train, its engine decorated with a huge "STALIN." After lying in stale in Moscow's onetime Nobles' Club, the corpse was cremated and the ashes poured into a bronze urn. This the Dictator and other pallbearers carried to a niche in the Kremlin wall after two hours of speechmaking. Their keynote: more and better vengeance. Cried Premier Vyacheslav Molotov: "We swear to carry on a merciless fight against every enemy of our Revolution...