Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds had won the round; the strike had compelled Arbenz to show his hand. "We consider this a complete victory," said the rail union secretary. "The handwriting was on the wall of the boxcar," said a businessman. "Arbenz will follow Arévalo down the left side of the road...
Guatemala's 6,000 rail workers went out on strike. In all the republic not a boxcar moved; 2,000,000 bananas rotted on the tracks. Passengers stranded as long as 40 hours in strike-halted trains finally had to beg for food in mountain hamlets and hitchhike back into the cities. Cattle died in stock trains marooned on main lines and sidings...
...Lieut. Colonel Wes McPheron. With McPheron, armchair listeners have crouched in a forward observation post watching a tank-artillery duel and stood helpless in an aid station listening to the moans of a soldier crippled by a mortar burst. Last month they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team. (As McPheron plunged into the prop blast, listeners heard him count, "1,000 . . . 2,000 . . . 3,000" then, as the chute cracked open: "Phew! It takes the wind...
Completing the damage was Kenneth White's Freight, concerned with a boxcar encounter between a group of frightened Negroes and a taunting Southern white. The author was obviously so obsessed with the idea of racial injustice that he never even got close to the reality, never for a minute escaped shattering dullness...