Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶Sixteen hours later, a fast-moving New York, New Haven & Hartford freight left the rails at the pivotal switching point at Stamford, Conn., ended up with 30 cars strewn across four main-line tracks, tying up New York-bound traffic. Injured: 1.
The below-freezing weather seemed to be under the control of foreign devils intent on Britain's downfall (the islands were in the middle of a high-pressure area that extended from central Russia to northern Iceland).* It lashed coal ships to their piers and snow-blocked 75,000...
Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam...
Panama. About 130 temporary bases were constructed outside the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone. Most of these bases (radar, searchlight, antiaircraft posts) have been returned to Panama. But the U.S. is faced with a terrific problem in defending the Big Ditch from the overcrowded air fields within the Canal Zone...
On the heels of such longtime export leaders as wheat, flour and newsprint, were some healthy newcomers. Locomotives, cars and parts exported totaled $53.3 million v. $358,000 in 1939; synthetic rubber, $7.9 million v. $200,000 in 1939; electrical apparatus (including radios), $20.9 million v. $3.2 million; ships, $18.8...