Word: tucumcari
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...train clacked on slowly, through the desert and up the mountains. As the coffee cups rattled in the dining cars the little marine said: "I haven't shaken so much since the night we went around Cape Hatteras, leaving the States." At Tucumcari, there was time for a beer at the station hotel: on the first round it cost a quarter; by the second the price shot to 40?. Said the red-haired sergeant from Rochester, not complaining, but just noticing: "Somebody's making money...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Bronson Cutting award to James N. Spuhler 1G., of Tucumcari...
...Angeles' weather, as well as its citizens, had given Alf Landon a chilly greeting, and, as the Sunflower Special sped eastward, the Nominee was nursing a cold and sore throat. But at Tucumcari, N. Mex., stung to fighting pitch by his Los Angeles booing and by recent Roosevelt speeches, disputing virtually every one of the President's tax points. Alf Landon struck harder and straighter at Franklin Roosevelt than ever before, accused him of "misrepresenting" the facts, went on to assert: "He is using the people's money directly and indirectly to secure his re-election...
...water-logged bridge into a raging river while entering Washington over the Pennsylvania's tracks, had killed two, injured 13. Five days later the Southern Pacific-Rock Island Golden State Limited had met with an almost identical disaster on the Southern Pacific's tracks near Tucumcari, N. M., had killed eight, injured 40 (TIME, Sept. 4 ). Both wrecks were due to sudden storms, could be set down as acts of God. But last week's Erie smash-up was the kind that all railroad men most deplore-the reckless failure of man power. After dusk the Atlantic...
...into Washington. Before dawn along came the Crescent Limited, crack Southern Railway train from New York to New Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...