Word: railhead
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...walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
Irked by Japanese boasts of knocking down Russian planes like clay pigeons, Red aviators bombed the railhead at Halunarshan, 125 miles behind the front. The Japanese had scarcely begun to protest that this was not cricket when a squadron of Russian bombers peppered Furoruji, almost 400 miles from the scene of battle. This, the Japanese announced, "differed radically from the border affair" and was going too far. If the Russians do not stop dumping bombs deep in Manchukuo, they said, Japanese planes will carry the war into Siberia. Next day seven Red bombers took the dare and blasted Halunarshan again...
Eleven years a Chicago Tribune man, two years assistant to Cinema Tsar Will Hays, John Boettiger was told to make the P-I the "best paper in town." In Seattle, he will find himself in one of the most colorful cities of the U. S. Settled in 1851, a railhead by 1883, headed for civic greatness with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, Seattle is now 19th U. S. port of entry, still retains the breezy style of prospecting days. Owning its utilities, seat of the Uni versity of Washington (this year's West Coast representative for the Rose...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
...between Beira, Portuguese East African port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...