Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artillery shells burst against Communist bunkers on a mountainside 3,000 yards up the valley and said nothing for a while. Finally, a 23-year-old rifleman from Honolulu, whose black hair had grown streaked with grey since he came into the line last July, spat on a splintered railroad tie. "So what?" he asked. "I'm going to start holding my breath? I ain't counting on nothing except that old big R in rotation to get me outa here." The BAR (Browning automatic rifle) man scuffed a stone and said: "So what're we supposed...
Some angry, defeated Liberals wanted to read Ramon Magsaysay out of the party. But President Quirino, alternately jealous and proud of Magsaysay, has an avuncular affection for his Secretary of Defense. He has given Magsaysay extra jobs-among them, running the vital Manila Railroad and Philippines Airlines. Magsaysay himself shrugs his shoulders, twists his eloquent brown face into a broad grin and asks: "How can a person get mad because we hold honest elections? All I did was follow religiously the instructions of the President...
...ISLAND (wholly Russian since 1945, when Red troops under the Yalta agreement took over the Japanese southern half): twelve divisions (six infantry, two armored, four possibly understrength airborne); headquarters of the Soviet Tenth Air Force, which probably has 800 planes on the island alone. The Russians recently completed a railroad running the full length of the island, are working day & night on concrete fortifications, hidden gun emplacements, airstrips, and armored-force maneuvering areas...
...North Pacific shore. Partly completed: a northern trunk of the Trans-Siberian railway, from Lake Baikal eastward to the lower Amur River region. Under construction: a highway from the mid-Siberian maneuvering and training center of Yakutsk eastward toward Anadyr, near the tip of Siberia, facing Alaska; a railroad from Nikolaevsk to Kamchatka, circling the Sea of Okhotsk and making Japan's northern water flank in effect a Russian lake...
...crop. To can the tomatoes, Tillie talked Pacific Can Co. into building a small plant at Stockton, with an option for her to buy. In 1935, her first year, she lost $1,000 but paid all bills. She proved her resourcefulness; once, when the boilers failed, she got a railroad to move in a locomotive, used its steam to complete the canning before the tomatoes spoiled. She designed a conveyor-belt feeder which is now used by other canners...