Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the wartime shipping shortage increased their burden, the Mexican railroads groaned under the load. Wrecks rose to the incredible figure of 400-plus in 1943. The inability or failure of the U.S. to supply enough new rails and equipment had something to do with this record, but the persistent squabbles of labor groups and general disorder were the most important causes...
...appointed ODT head over the opposition of critics who held that the depression-blighted railroads were unprepared for war.* They wanted Government control backed with a big stick, and Eastman, they protested, was no big-stick man. But Eastman dumbfounded his critics. He successfully carried an ever-increasing burden without faltering-and so did the railroads...
...Burden of the Past. In the final analysis, it is up to the Italians to put their house in order. That is a job which they may not be able to do alone. One of the great misfortunes of Italian antiFascists in the south is that they have been unable to bring help from German-occupied northern Italy, where political groups are stronger and the national fiber is tougher...
...away.) Most of the blood in his veins was the German blood of the Hanovers, mixed with the English Tudors and Scotch Stuarts. His house had owned the English name of Windsor only 19 years. But on Dec. 10, 1936, when he stuttered a little and took up the burden of his brother, the slow mutation of the British way had made him as British as a cockney...
...camera's eye recorded the story of a people (see cut). Somewhere in war-torn Italy, planes dived low. In this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...