Word: rail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Military Heart of China," to have convinced himself that once this "heart" is in Japanese hands it will be impossible for the Chinese to keep up organized resistance. With the fall of Hankow, the Japanese would not merely have taken another "Chinese Capital." They would have seized the rail head of the Canton-Hankow line up which has been coming much the greater portion of all munitions the Chinese have been able...
Despite a severe lag behind safety requirements, German rail replacements have dropped 40% behind 1937 estimates. Contrary to official orders, new coaches, especially sleepers, have been made of wood rather than steel. Though traffic has increased by 70% since 1932 (Hitler took power in 1933), rolling stock capacity has fallen...
...feet, bores into numerous tunnels, connects with no foreign lines. Foreign engineers, not interested in strategy, chuckled that the railway goes from "nowhere to nowhere." This spring Scandinavian engineers were doubling shifts to finish before autumn a 200-mile gap so that His Imperial Majesty can soon ride by rail from his estates on the Caspian to his lands on the Persian Gulf...
...Soviet rail transport is not going well, Railway Commissar Aleksei Bakulin was ousted last week and his commissariat turned over to Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich, who is very close to the Dictator. Since in nearly every part of Russia delinquent railwaymen were lined up on station platforms and dispatched by firing squads at the orders of Lazar Kaganovich the last time he was Railway Commissar, he is the logical choice...
Immediate Proposals: 1) RFC to make available $300,000,000 for new rail equipment purchases; 2) ICC to be relieved of its present necessity to certify that roads applying for RFC loans are not in need of reorganization; 3) wage cuts; 4) abolition of the reduced rates on Government traffic over the so-called land-grant lines; 5) amendment of section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act to speed railroad reorganizations, possibly by a special railroad court; 6) the Government to guarantee or underwrite bonds issued in voluntary railroad reorganizations to insure their payment and thus expedite reorganizations...