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Boss of this stupendous job was Major General Sanderford Jarman, a hulking heap of energy and ambition who fired railway guns at the Germans in World War I, afterward had much to do with developing the intricate directors which guide the fire of modern anti-aircraft guns...
Misery in the Jungle. Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, 25 years ago a railway car on a Chaco siding, is today a city of 25,000 souls. Typical of the region is its population: 90% foreign-born, 80% Slavic. Its mayor, blond, blue-eyed, Jewish José Pavlotzky, was until recently one of the most popular characters in the Chaco...
...drifted on to a professorship of mining & metallurgy at the Missouri School of Mines, spent many years in Manhattan editing various engineering publications, including the Gas Age Record. George, whose main hobbies have always been guns and big-game hunting, was once a construction engineer on the Great Northern Railway in Montana, Idaho and Washington...
...passes that crack riflemen and machine-gunners could hold. Infantry is the Army's pride, as it has been since the days of the Janizaries. The infantry is rendered stronger by the fact that the great Kamâl Atatürk modernized his country with a railway program and built scarcely a single good road...
Returning from their Easter holiday to school in the north of England, two young sons of Belgian Premier-in-Exile Hubert Pierlot were trapped in a railway coach that caught fire, killed as they leaped from the train. A brother, Gerard, 13, was badly hurt...