Word: eastbound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forerunner of bigger & better grabs, however, the Albanian coup served as an unmistakable warning to all small countries which lie in the path of the Nazi-Fascist eastbound steam roller, the very countries which Britain has tried to persuade to join up with her. To belatedly aroused Britain and France, Italy's action was possibly more serious than Herr Hitler's recent challenges. In pushing boldly into the Balkan Peninsula, traditional spawning ground of wars, the Fascist military machine had come perilously close to clashing with the "vital interests" of the British and French Empires. Greek naval bases...
...fact that no actual German military aggression had taken place gave Russia and the democracies a chance to turn their eyes from the eastbound Nazi steam roller. The German-Rumanian treaty, which in time is expected to reduce if not wipe out all commerce between Rumania and other States, provides that...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
...same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer Creek, the Olympian was supposed to have waited until an eastbound special, carrying 120 CCC boys, could reach a siding to let the limited go through. But without automatic block signals to remind forgetful engineers of orders in their jumper pockets, the Olympian raced past Ingobar. A mile beyond, it cracked head-on into the CCC train, killed one boy, injured...
...disheveled young man appeared before 17 startled passengers. He was allowed to finish his ride in one of four unoccupied seats. At the next stopping place he was escorted off airport property and released. Only rub was that Flyer Hagaman, in the excitement of his adventure, boarded an eastbound plane, found himself in Dayton, Ohio, 150 miles farther away from home...