Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goldschmidt and the rest of the field continued without interruption, down through the main streets of Watkins Glen, over a stone bridge in the state park, across railroad tracks, through hazardous short turns, over roads of macadam, concrete, brick and dirt. By the end of the second lap, heavy-footed Erwin Goldschmidt had the lead...
...basis, they bought out Reserve Mining Co., which owns leaseholds on 17,000 acres of taconite. Republic and Armco agreed to build a $60 million ore-processing plant near Beaver Bay, on Lake Superior's North Shore, and a 47-mile railroad to the taconite mines. The immediate production goal: 2,500,000 tons of taconite ore a year. Ultimately, the two companies plan to spend $100 million more to boost production to 10 million tons a year, equivalent to 10% of all current U.S. iron-ore consumption...
...Inchon invasion was aimed at Seoul, through which runs the only good railroad and the best highway from North Korea to the Pusan perimeter. If the U.N. force could put its thumb on this windpipe of the North Korean forces, the Reds would soon run out of ammunition and other supplies. The Inchon invasion faced the North Korean command with a perilous choice: either pull divisions out of the Pusan perimeter in an effort to hold Seoul, or stay in the south and continue to fight Walker while Red supplies dwindled away...
Union Station (Paramount) stages a police hunt for kidnapers through Los Angeles' railroad terminal, elevated trains, stockyards and municipal tunnel. After methodically nabbing three members of the gang, the cops (William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald) undertake the ticklish job of smoking out its leader (Lyle Bettger) before he can do away with his hostage, a blind teen-age girl (Allene Roberts...
Actor Fitzgerald's Irish whimsy leavens his role of a wise old police inspector, but the rest of the characters are cut & dried. Holden seems miscast as a railroad detective with a reputation for toughness. Since he and Heroine Nancy Olson begin to bicker almost as soon as they meet, cinemaddicts will instantly sense a case of love at first sight. Director Rudolph Mate deploys his actors and camera with workmanlike skill, and the authentic settings help to give much of the film a fair degree of suspense...