Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad units, representing...
...belief of the Air Force that it could 'isolate' the beachhead area ... I might as well say right here that this didn't work . . . Throughout the Italian campaign, I saw this isolation theory tried out again and again, and repeatedly the enemy moved his forces by railroad and by highway, with some difficulty to be sure, but with a great deal of effectiveness...
Changing signals, Major General Hobart Gay, the 1st Cavalry's commander, converted his frontal assault to a three-pronged drive. One of his columns swung west of the highway, knifed in a sweeping end run to the railroad and highway north of Kumchon to cut the main Communist supply line. The British Commonwealth 27th Brigade leapfrogged U.S. troops, sliced toward Kumchon in a wide northeast arc. The main body of the 1st Cavalry Division continued to slog up the Kumchon highway behind Patton tanks...
...newspapers for a city which normally buys 800,000 papers a day. Early every morning, long lines queued up outside the city's newsstands to scramble for them. Since harried news vendors favored only regular customers, a lively grey market soon started. One surprised traveler, alighting at the railroad station with a Sunday New York Times, was handed 50? for his day-old newspaper. Metropolitan sales of Pittsburgh's Negro weekly, the Courier, shot up from 23,000 to 41,000, while the demand for newsmagazines far outran the supply...
...title whimsically bestowed by Drake's Connecticut sponsor to impress Titusville yokels with the importance of his work. Actually, the only uniform that Drake ever wore was as a conductor on the New York, New Haven Railroad...