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Word: tramload (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Colfax last fortnight an L. & A. freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Backwoods War | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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