Word: railways
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Obstructionist. In Chattanooga, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway moved to enjoin Sam Shipley, 22, from "standing on the tracks . . . until it becomes necessary ... to put down the emergency brakes...
...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors of America, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Switchmen's Union of North America...
...surging shells swing away from the starting line at Bartlett's Cove and head down the four mile stretch of blue Thames toward the Railway Bridge at 7 o'clock this Saturday, Harvard and Yale oarsmen will match strokes in the seventy-ninth annual meeting of these traditional rivals...
...Doors. The British would doubtless make every effort to dislodge the Germans from the oil fields. But it appeared last week that the Germans might be able to supply their forces in Iraq through Turkey. It was reported in Vichy that the first German force straddled the Bagdad-Istanbul railway and refused to get off it unless the Turks allowed German equipment to ride its rails across Turkey...
...case than their unfortunate countrymen. As German officials moved in, Nazi Commissioner Josef Terboven issued a decree divorcing the Samling and the State, provided that in the future the Party should pay its own way, even declared that Quisling's Storm Troopers should dig down for their own railway fares. The Nazis also demanded that the Samling pay back 500,000 kroner ($115,000) taken from the State treasury for Party...