Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Students going home by train nonstop through Canada. It is hardly conceivable that a permit would be required...
...from the Throne, when the Premier dropped dead (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week King Farouk commanded Minister of War Saleh Younes Pasha to attend his royal person during ceremonies inaugurating a new water system at Fayyúm. With a brisk step the Minister entered the King's train at Cairo. Just as it was about to pull out he collapsed. Jabbering with excitement, Egyptians carried Saleh Younes Pasha out of the royal train to a station sitting room, where he rapidly grew weaker and died...
...Nanking, capital of Puppet Wang Ching-wei's National Government, Lieut. General Nobuyuki Abe, who is occupied China's real ruler, at long last went through the formality of recognizing Wang's regime. The day before, a bomb had gone off under a train in Soochow station, but the Chinese who planted the bomb got the wrong train and killed 100 of their countrymen. A few hours later General Abe's train went through safely to Nanking, where student agitators demonstrated against the Japanese and 3,000 policemen chose that time to strike for more wages...
...Gene Tunney, in a Stamford, Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...
...approximate profit of $10,000,000. Quietly sensing the end of a falling market in 1927, he bought Mexican Petroleum, pushed it up 75 points, suddenly went off on a vacation with another bull fortune in his pocket. Unable to get a lower berth on a Florida train, he chartered a special to take him from Palm Beach to Jacksonville...