Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, both sides kept a cautious sparring stance. U.N. radar-guided planes flew through blinding rains, hammered at Red airfields, railroad yards, bridges, troop concentrations, supply dumps. U.N. warships ranged north of the parallel, shelled Red supply lines. Patrols slogged through quagmire roads, encountered enemy units on the same mission, felt out their strength and retired...
...carefully was the trial set to railroad Oatis, observers reported, that a well-rehearsed court translator once got ahead of the prosecution witness whose words he was interpreting. This week the Czechs spurned the State Department's request for the immediate release of Oatis. But State had still made no move of reprisal against imports from Czechoslovakia, or Czech correspondents and diplomatic officials...
...throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed. A few seconds later the canyon rocks reverberated with a thunderous blast as the iron horses collided headon. Scrap iron hurtled against the wooden barricades which protected the five cameras grinding away from different angles. Farther off, 300 railroad and film people cheered. As any small boy could understand, there may be something richly satisfying in the spectacle of two monsters bashing hell out of each other...
...film industry recorded its first no-fake train collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think it was staged with miniatures...
...Alice's Wonderland had a railroad, it would probably look like the "Far Twittering and Oysterperch," which for years has been chuffing through the pages of Punch. Under the management of its founder, Cartoonist Rowland Emett, its carriages are apt to be outhouses, its locomotives are overgrown with vines and their mechanism recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which...