Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody of a U. S. marshal. Dead was veteran Engineer Earl, after 41 years' service. On him the New York Central line placed the blame, said the speed tape in his cab showed he had driven the Limited at a speed of 59 m.p.h. into the sharpest curve on the main line of the Central system. Maximum...
...lifetime reputation of this great-grandson of Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte puts him squarely on the side of democracy in Sweden's undercover struggle. No less a democrat is his son, Gustafus Adolfus, who at 58 is still preparing to become King of Sweden. During the King's vacations Gustafus Adolfus has taken over his duties and his Ministers have found little difference between father & son. Not quite so tall, not quite so spare as Gustaf, his son has all his political acumen, all his popularity. It used to be said in Sweden that...
...curtains of fog and blankets of cloud, is not a good place for Air Power to prove itself better than Sea Power. But the fact that the British risked their heavy ships within gunshot of Stavanger gave strong evidence of Allied confidence after a week of testing against Marshal Göring's sky terror. The safe landing in Norway of most of three divisions of Allied land forces added proof to confidence...
Before the final decree was granted, a U. S. Marshal, acting on a court order, raided the College Tutoring Bureau and seized 800 illegal outlines, which were carted away into Boston in two taxis and later burned...
During the past two years the Japanese have bought up large real-estate holdings in order to control more votes. Three weeks ago they announced they would run five instead of the usual two Japanese candidates. They hoped to marshal enough votes to oust three British Councilmen, elect the three extra Japanese. If they could get them elected, and then coerce the five Chinese Councilmen, Japan could put the final squeeze on foreign business in China...