Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold Will. For Admiral King, the call to greatness came almost too late. Born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1878, of British-immigrant parents (his father was a railroad mechanic), he was a top Annapolis graduate, class of 1901, who spent the next 40 years learning all there was to know about surface ships, submarines and naval aviation. (He qualified as a pilot at 48.) Approaching retirement age (64) in 1941, he was saved from the shelf by the Navy's need for a boss as tough as the five-ocean, six-front war it was about to fight...
...prolonged, early-morning blast of locomotive whistles in the Polish industrial city of Poznan that set off a revolt heard round the world. At 7 a.m. one day last week some 30,000 machinists, founders, fitters and laborers of all callings assembled at the locomotive, railroad-car and metallurgical factories on Poznan's outskirts. They were orderly but they were determined, and they had a grievance...
...this time, armed workers had taken up tactical positions on neighboring rooftops and were pinning down the guards with their fire. The guards replied with submachine guns. Other strikers went to Poznan's two railroad stations, closed them down, barricaded highways leading into Poznan with overturned automobiles and furniture. Another group smashed Poznan's powerful radio transmitter, and tossed out the electronic equipment used to jam broadcasts from the West...
...Service and ride to their jobs in the big factories of Vereeniging, Vanderbijl Park and Johannesburg. Then, a year ago, the white-owned bus company raised its fare. Thousands of Evaton's commuters began riding bicycles, forming car pools in native-owned cabs, or taking the slower railroad to work. As the boycott spread (as bus boycotts spread in the U.S.−see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), those who persisted in paying the higher bus fares found themselves threatened by those who refused to. Dozens were injured and at least three were killed...
...meat of the film, however, is the chase. Disney dug up some fine period rolling stock and set it racing madly along a stretch of the antiquated Tallulah Falls Railroad in northern Georgia. The epic sight of the bright-colored, majestic eight-wheelers, belching smoke and spinning their drivers, is enough to make moviegoers thoroughly dissatisfied with the pallid diesel streamliners of today...