Word: railways
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...Stresa," remarked Benito Mussolini one day last week, pausing an instant as he dictated Fascist orders of the day. "Get Stresa ready for a conference on April 11. Veneer the railway station with marble. Repave the principal streets. Clean up everything-the usual precautions. And don't spend more than 2,000,000 lire...
...modesty but dignity prompted Tobacco-man Duke's Daughter Doris, honeymooning at the Taj Mahal in a private railway car with her Husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, to protest last week: "I'm a married woman now. 'Tobacco Queen!' What a name...
...sensitivity of selenium to light was discovered in 1873 by Willoughby Smith. Restaurant and railway station doors opened by selenium cells are still novelties...
...district ran on for twelve consecutive days), police closed highways to prevent accidents. Airplanes were grounded. Schools and businesses were closed. Health officers advised every one to stay at home. Three children and several adults were reported dead of pneumonia after breathing dust. During the height of the storm, railway traffic was at a standstill. When high winds swept the dust Eastward Kansas City had night at midday and people walked the streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat...
Breaking the old Bolshevik rule that railway casualties must be concealed, new Commissar of Railways Lazar Kaganovich last week revealed 62,000 accidents on Soviet lines in 1934, with destruction of 4,500 cars, damage to 7,000 locomotive and 60,000 cars, "material loss" of 500 cars, damage to 7.000 locomotives and 60,000 cars, "material of 60,000,000 rubles and the deaths of "hundreds of persons." Editorialed the Party newsorgan Pravda next day: "The previous policy of concealing railway wrecks was wrong...