Word: railways
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...Lyon was the gala premiéere of his newest film, The Comedian. It turned out to be one of his usual hits. When the show was over, he and his leading lady, Lina Marconi, were driven away for a gay supper. At the lowered barrier of a railway crossing, however, men sprang from the darkness. Said their leader: "We are terribly sorry, Monsieur Sacha Guitry, but we are men of the Resistance and we think it advisable that you come with...
...Romans said, "from nowhere to nowhere." It began under the Colosseum and meandered five miles southwest to the site of a projected Fascist fairground outside the city. Last year the city fathers decided to complete the project by extending it 1¼ miles, from the Colosseum to the central railway station...
...Young was determined to get the girl, even if he had to take up with her prosperous friends too. The Interstate Commerce Commission had turned down the trial marriage of his Chesapeake & Ohio with the New York Central, partly because it would take business away from the Virginian Railway Co. (TIME, May 24). So Suitor Young made a new proposal: he would buy into or merge with the Virginian too, and merge it with the Central and C. & O. Said the thriving, coal-hauling Virginian: Not feasible. ICC said nothing...
...princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...
...violate the antitrust and interstate commerce laws. For another, "the applicants have not shown that either public or private interests will not be adversely affected." ICC reckoned that half a dozen other railroads-and therefore the public -would have been harmed. Example: Frank D. Beale, president of the Virginian Railway Co., wailed that a C. & O.-Central link would just about choke off his road...