Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utilitarians intend to build a train of such rotor-surmounted trucks and run them around a circular track half a mile in diameter. Thus, on windy days, power companies can draw current from the wind, can let their steam plants idle...
When Belgian King Albert rolled over to Rio in 1919, hospitable Brazilians built him a special train in which he toured their United States. Last week Royal Albert's train, splendidly refurbished, was turned over to Brazil's latest great visitor, big-fisted President Augustin P. Justo of Argentina who rolled up to Rio in a battleship (TIME, Oct. 16). Just before his departure last week dynamic General Justo signed with broad and highbrowed Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil what they called "ten treaties." First was a pact of utmost significance, binding Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...
...from Louisville, Ky. where it had been exhibited, the Royal Scot, crack London-to-Edinburgh train which was brought to the U. S. for A Century of Progress, struck and killed one Charles Lee Mitchell, 22, while passing through Reed, Ky. Engineer William Gilbertson did not know he had killed a man, continued his run to St. Louis...
...sudden capture of the national attention by humanism in the year 1930," says Professor Mercier, "might at first seem strange." Strange, but not unprecedented. To a large section of the national attention, the New Humanism was only one more new doctrine in a long train--transcendentalism, pragmatism, New Thought, Christian Science--which had suddenly captured in turn various intellectual layers of the popular imagination. The national attention which humanism captured probably grasped little more of it than the fact that it was something earnestly preached by Irving Babbitt which had a great deal to say against Rousseau, and that...
...Eastern Air is experimenting with berths just like a Pullman car's. To start, the company installed only two berths in one plane, a lower and upper, complete with reading lamps, clothing nets, hangers. It had yet to prove that passengers, who think nothing of disrobing in a train or at sea, would believe they are safe without clothes in a plane...