Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fruitful Project. In Costa Rica, Pan American Highway engineers, quartered on a pineapple plantation, ordered food from home, got a carload of canned pineapple...
That time none got away from Campo 35. But there was another time at another place. After Italy surrendered, the Nazis moved Allied P.W.s by the carload into Germany. There at last Millar had his chance. With a friend, he made a break from a railroad train near Munich. They had laid careful plans: a roll of marks, suitable clothing, a nearby underground contact. At night the train guards were sleepy. The prisoners went into the lava-tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses...
...view. When he saw last year's terrific increases in consumption, he began to think in terms of shortages and higher prices to ease the shortages. The higher prices are still forestalled by ceilings-but last week some Midwestern farmers were asking and getting such bonuses for a carload of grain as six pairs of nylon stockings, a heavy-duty truck tire or a fine bird...
...words like cold and hunger had a remote and dimly remembered sound. Thanksgiving turkeys arrived in market by the carload; to get more mincemeat on the holiday table, OPA raised the ceiling price 2? a pound. Shoe rationing was over; department stores were taking orders for Christmas nylons...
...took their horses away, so it is closed. Near the South Gate, called Nam Tai Moon, the brick railway station was seething with refugees and other travelers. Nobody was northbound-that way lay Manchuria. Only a handful of Russian liaison officers-no troops-had appeared in Seoul. When one carload neared the city, they were politely turned back...