Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent statement to the CRIMSON, Dean Baker of the Business School emphasizes the fact that the institution does not train men in the practical side of business. Its fifty odd courses aim rather to give a fundamental approach to business problems which will help an individual in whatever branch he takes...
...Department expense account for an official wreath at a State funeral. He once argued for months with a railroad over a 35? claim, and won. He refused to give a traveling official $1.50 for supper because he said the man could have eaten at home before he caught the train and that anyhow Congress had not appropriated money for that purpose. He has more power over Treasury expenditures than the President, must see every check that is written from 1? to $1,000,000,000. He can be overridden by no Government official. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl has been...
...fairly accurate picture of the Adventure's mine deck. ''This unique railway is served by about 80 officers and men, and its rolling stock consists of hundreds of the most powerful submarine mines in existence. . . . When the order is given to lay mines, the sinister 'train' is set in motion. Its speed can be regulated, and as each mine arrives at the stern it is man-handled through an open port and dropped into the sea. ... In less than half an hour the Adventure could render many square miles of sea most unhealthful to navigation...
Fifi Vollard would not then, as he does not now, raise a finger to attract a customer or sell a canvas but occasionally he moved quickly. As soon as Cézanne died Fifi hopped a train for Aix, bought the entire contents of Cézanne's studio, loaded it on a handcart and pushed off for the station. The last canvas came hustling through an open window from the hands of the bereaved family just in time for him to make his train. The War closed the doors of the Rue Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew...
...past the dining hall they were on their way to the railroad station by taxi. They persuaded the taximan they were students in good standing, entitled to a weekend but for reasons of their own leaving quietly. The taxi sped across the State line to Middleton, N. Y. The train pulled in and they clambered aboard. The whistle echoed excitingly through the dark hills. Phelps Newberry Jr. and Henry Wetter Jr. breathed easier when they reached Grand Central Station and found no policemen waiting for them. They went to a cheap Times Square hotel, the Bradley House, registered as "Norman...