Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TRANSPORT. Labor plans to weld railways, trucking canals, docks & harbors (but not shipping) into a unit under a national transport board by next year. Rail and road haulage comapnies have already launched a "fight-to-finish" propaganda barrage against the project...
Behind the rail guarding the summit of Yosemite's misty, snow-swollen Vernal Falls, 21-year-old Orville Loos, just out of the Navy and still in uniform, gaped -with the other tourists, listened to the mighty cataract pounding fearsomely on the jagged boulders 320 feet below. It would be something to remember when he went home to Dayton, Ohio, and the new electrical-appliance shop his parents had bought...
...moment, and slipped into the racing torrent while trying to retrieve a canteen. He was headed for the falls. As the boy twisted toward the brink 80 feet away, Veteran Loos, like the other tourists, had a moment for decision. He made it. He vaulted the rail, floundered in icy, swirling power...
...More precisely, soft seats. The Soviets have substituted this two-class system of rail travel for the old Czarist three-class system of blue (luxurious), yellow (well off) and green (poor) cars. Abolition of classes in the classless society has meant that social differences are replaced by differences in material quality of the seats. The difference in cost remains...
Your writer created quite a stir locally with his reference to the 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars tied up here . . . by the recent rail strike [TIME, June...