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Rescuers pried their way into the over-toppled steel cars, released the bruised and bloodied passengers. One man was killed, a score injured. Unhurt in his cab was Engineer McKee whose 77-ton locomotive alone had held the rails...
...final feudal touch marked her passing. Sitting in the locomotive cab, his hand on the throttle, was the Duke of Saragossa, Grandee of Spain, whose hereditary right it is to drive the locomotive of the Queen's train. Earlier in the morning he had rushed to the Madrid North Station, thinking that the Royal train would leave from there and had been roundly hooted by Republican youths. At the Escorial he jangled his bell and opened the throttle in dignified silence...
...years ago "Junior's" ability caught the eye of John Daniel Hertz, taxicab tycoon, who persuaded him to take the presidency of Yellow Cab Co. of Chicago upon Mr. Hertz's retirement. For a time, while a bitter and somewhat bloody war was being waged between Yellow and Checker Cab drivers, Ames was driven about by a huge chauffeur, armed to the teeth. But in a very few months after Yellow was taken over by Parmelee Transportation Co., "Junior" resigned. He became Chicago chief of a financial wire service, but the Journal of Commerce needed him, and he returned...
...frightened fireman told of night after night when passengers of the Norrland Express roared north, wholly ignorant of the fact that mad Engineer Erik was rolling on the floor of the engine cab in an epileptic...
...notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl. Governor Emmerson of Illinois opened the poultry show, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board came to preach his gospel of fattening stock on the nation's surplus wheat, Mrs. John Hertz (Yellow Cab) showed a group of australorps, antipodean fowl, from her farm at Gary...