Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, was a city of refuge last week. Into it from newly abandoned mission stations in Honan and. northern Hupeh provinces-by rail, truck, mule cart and often on foot-trekked American missionaries. They felt unable any longer to live and work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached...
...Reminded Them . . ." The Seventh Day Adventists at Yencheng left their mission and 80-bed hospital a week before Christmas. Normally, Hankow is only a day's rail journey south. It took them-six Americans and 28 Chinese led by Elder Merritt C. Warren of California-three weeks...
...Little? The only reason he signed the bill at all, the President wrote, was because it covered three of the ten points contained in the program he submitted to Congress in November: extended export controls, extended control over rail facilities, authority to promote increased farm production. These three measures, he said, "are needed now." But "they are of minor importance compared with . . . the key measures which are essential to an effective anti-inflation program." In particular, the President wanted stand-by authority for compulsory allocations, rationing and wage-price controls...
...observation tower of New York's Empire State Building, jumping-off place for many suicides (four this year), was finally fenced in with a jump-proof rail...
Premier Schuman declared it a "state of insurrection." According to secret Communist campaign plans which fell into the hands of the Ministry of the Interior, and which the police believed were genuine, the Reds planned to: 1) isolate Paris by rail and postal strikes; 2) cut off the south of France and there create a liaison zone with Italian Communists; 3) paralyze coal production in the north; 4) "create disturbances in key towns, notably Marseille, Lyon, St-Etienne, Limoges, Poitiers, Bordeaux, Toulouse...