Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...young man dropped a coin in the turnstile, walked out on to the platform. But instead of boarding a train, he stood there and watched while three other people came through the turnstile after him. Then he looked hastily around, darted to the turnstile, put his lips to the coin slot, sucked. At this point the amazed Mr. Milli bounded out of hiding and grabbed him. In the young man's mouth. Milli later declared, was a nickel...
...Order of the Crown, the Gold Medal of the City Paris, a certificate as honorary consul of Cannes, an honorary inspectorship in the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles. Three flowers, a South American race horse, a restaurant, a Boston & Maine locomotive and a New Jersey Central streamlined train have been named for her. Los Angeles and Norwalk, Conn. have celebrated Lily Pons days...
...calculate that Hitler has 30.000 aircraft of all types and a probable bomber strength of 7,000. ... He has never yet directed against us anything like his total hitting power. ... He had to train new personnel in long-distance night-bombing tactics. He is doing it. ... The Nazis have 16,000 instructors now working on six-week courses in factories. We have got a couple of thousand. They have 200 training centres. We've got 40. ... They have really mobilized the whole area they control. Conscription is the honest word for mobilization and let's stop being mealymouthed...
Followed by tail-coated plenipotentiaries, duck-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week borrowed a nickel, pressed through the turnstiles into the subterranean maze. Donning a conductor's cap, he posed at the controls of a shiny new train, then settled back with proud satisfaction as it slithered off through the spotless white tunnel which even smelled clean. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Subway had been opened...
...roll of British ports bombed last week sounded more like a train announce ment than a report of one of the great battles of history. Accounts of what happened night after night did not sound so impressive as the great air battles of last September, when hundreds of planes were shot down from the air before men's eyes...