Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny Sunday afternoon. As the four-motored Sacred Cow headed west from Washington's Boiling Field, the coal and railroad strikes, the food crisis, the failure of the Paris conference seemed left behind. Harry Truman was off on a 30-hour weekend in Missouri, his seventh trip away from Washington in 1946, his 16th since taking office...
Life is like a mountain railroad...
Next morning the Russians assembled at Seoul's railroad station. The Americans saw them off. Generals Arnold and Shtykov chatted pleasantly for half an hour. Vodka was poured. As the Soviet train pulled north toward Korea's iron curtain, the last Russian visible, standing in the rear door of the end coach, was a Tommy-gunner...
Life without Father. Father's name was Devlan, not Fowler. He was an apprentice patternmaker in the machine shops of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Mother sang a rich soprano in the choir of the Methodist Church. Not long after their marriage in 1889, Father decided that he had had all he could stand. Without even waiting to see whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he cleared out for the mountains of Clear Creek County, west of Denver. The boy grew up and never laid eyes on Charlie Devlan until he was 30 and Charlie...
...Coal, No Trains. The railroads would soon feel the touch of paralysis. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was almost out of coal. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad was down to less than two weeks' supply. Unless the mines opened by May 6, there would be a major railroad...