Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans came to Korea (then known as the Hermit Kingdom) in 1882, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, built the country's first trolley line, rail way and waterworks. The Japanese, after defeating Russia in 1904-05, made Korea their colony and highroad to Manchuria. They gave it modern transport, developed its mines, exploited its farms, opened Shinto shrines...
...buyers for its $146,100,000 property. Last week it put its best sales foot forward. It cut Big Inch's per barrel price to tanker levels. But even if the pipe lines are shut off for good, they will have saved the U.S. $100,000,000 in rail costs, almost as much as their total cost...
Land of Romance. As the transport drew near the land, G.I.s swarmed to the rail, eyes misty with Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...
...merger is approved by the lines' stockholders (which is almost certain) and by the Interstate Commerce Commission (likely), Robert Young will control the twelfth largest U.S. rail system (7,500 miles of trackage) and the fourth best income producer ($39.3 million last year from the four railroads). Presidents of the four roads promised that the merger would mean substantial savings in overhead, bookkeeping and maintenance...
Railroad Stocks. When investors heard that all carloads of westbound war freight stopped dead in their tracks, many unloaded their railroad stocks. On the New York Stock Exchange, values of railroad stocks were down one to five points. The Dow-Jones rail averages ended the week at 53.05, down 3.19 from the week before...