Word: rail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium
...main battle front at Chengchow, 300 miles on a direct rail line north of Hankow, the Japanese forces last week made only small gains. Retreating Chinese had cut dykes on the Yellow River north of the city and the saffron waters of "China's Sorrow" poured over the low-lying, sandy ground outside Cheng-chow, bogged down Japan's mechanized advance...
...service during the War he had a minor crackup, got influenza and pneumonia, was discharged as permanently and totally disabled. Seeking relief from pain in utter exhaustion, he worked in bed at market studies begun earlier, finally completed the exacting task of charting Dow-Jones industrial and rail averages from January 1, 1897. These charts, magazine articles and his textbook covered his bed with fan correspondence from Dow Theorists. Then he started an interpretive-letter service, which is now prepared with the help of a staff averaging 25. Last week his 205th interpretive letter went to 5,565 subscribers throughout...
...more confidence in the smartest jockey of the year, Kentucky-born Eddie Arcaro, who had the leg up on Lawrin. Determined to win his first Kentucky Derby, 23-year-old Jockey Arcaro rode the race he planned. Drawing the No. 1 post position, he kept Lawrin close to the rail, stuck in the ruck until he found his opening. Coming into the stretch, he pulled out in front-three, four, five lengths- shot across the finish line a full length ahead of William du Pont's fast closing Dauber. Can't Wait was third. Favorites Fighting...
Results: Derailments have increased from 259 (1932) to 4,513 (1937); rail casualties and injuries from...