Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main body of U.S. troops in Korea continued to fall back along the railroad leading to Pusan, from which they hoped eventually to launch a counteroffensive. This kind of delaying retreat in the face of much larger forces is one of the most difficult operations known, and one of the hardest on morale. Yet, U.S. forces, notably unaccustomed to such tactics, had handled themselves superbly. In a month of bitter fighting, they had gradually slowed up the North Korean offensive in the center of the peninsula...
...rest safely on the southern coast near Pusan. The operation was endangered last week by a Red drive down Korea's western coast which captured Kwangju and pushed on towards Sunchon. This indicated that the Reds' main drive may not follow the U.S. retreat along the railroad into the very rough, defensible country southeast of Taejon...
Through it runs a double-tracked trunk-line railroad, which twists 125 miles through the mountains to Pusan, the U.S. buildup port in the southeast. Last week the North Korean Reds arrived at the city's outskirts. U.S. troops of the 24th Division were supposed to hold Taejon two days ; they held it for three...
Dead at the Throttle. At the burning Taejon railroad station, a locomotive engineer who had been tooting his whistle frantically throughout the early hours of the fighting finally decided to make a break for it; his train got through, but a hospital train that tried to re-enter the city later, to take out the wounded, was driven off. The engineer was shot dead at the throttle...
...rate of about 5,450,000 barrels a day, almost as much as the alltime peak in November 1948. Consumption of gas for automobiles was up 10% over last summer; oil burners were being installed at a rate 45% above last July. Last week Texas' State Railroad Commission upped the daily allowable rate of crude production to 2.5 million barrels, an increase of some 700,000 barrels over a year...