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...worked his way around the world as radio operator on a freighter. After Harvard he worked for the United Press in London, for the New York Times in pre-Hitler Berlin. He spent one summer traveling all over Russia without official guide and in "hard" class railway coaches-slept out-of-doors or in peasants' cottages-saw the Soviet Union almost with the eyes of a native-told the story of his trek in a book (Black Bread and Samovars) that won him a post as Moscow correspondent. Later he was State Department reporter for the Washington Post, came...
...days it was touch & go. The Germans tried to drive the Eighth's amphibious column back into the sea. Their tanks crunched into Termoli, came within 200 yards of the railway station, where British headquarters and a field hospital were pitched. The show was at its stickiest when suddenly British tank reinforcements appeared, broke the German assault...
...predict that it is the straw that will break the back of the unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...
...attracted by Okeh's success, Victor decided to enter the field, unearthed in Bristol, Va. a former Southern Railway brakeman named Jimmie Rodgers. His quaintly drawling voice soon became the biggest thing in hillbilly minstrelsy...
...North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...