Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drafted last week to a job for which he has long been pointed and is ably qualified to handle was expert, hard-working ICC Chairman Joseph B. Eastman. The job: director of newly created Office of Defense Transportation, over all rail, highway, airway, waterway (including coastal and intercoastal) and pipeline services. ODT is the greatest challenge to Eastman in his long career-that of wartime coordinator of all U.S. transportation. His task...
...prisoners. They definitely claimed superiority in the air, but admitted that large German air forces had been withdrawn from the front. The Russians claimed that deep snows were confining the Germans, like Napoleon, to the roads, and that Red Cavalry, like the Cossacks of 1812. were constantly harassing the highway-bound, rear-bound enemy; and yet the Russians admitted that they were meeting little but rear-guard resistance...
About Leningrad, Red banners moved forward too. Russian troops regained points along the Moscow-Leningrad highway, went on to cross the Volkhov River and seize Volkhov itself. They said an offensive for the relief of Leningrad was under...
...cause of the avalanche was probably a series of torrential rains. As relief parties headed by Peru's President Manuel Prado Ugarteche started north, an earthquake blocked the highway...
Rate boosts in the past have demonstrated that they are not the prime answer to railroad financial problems. Too often the railroads have timed them to accentuate a fall in traffic (see chart). They always divert traffic to highway and waterway competitors, cause shippers to lie awake nights scheming ways of eliminating rail transportation...