Word: railroads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Andrew Kotalik, who once worked as a boilermaker for the Lackawanna Railroad, summed up his recent life in words that contracted the world's dimensions more strikingly than air-travel statistics and which made peace terms seem more real than all the speeches of statesmen: "From de war we ain't had enough. From de Joimans we ain't had enough. Den dem bandit fellers come and dey boint down de houses' and boint my horse and four sheepses. Excuse my English, but can't you folks do something for us folks...
...based on the world's biggest open-pit coal mine. The Russians stripped Fushun of much of its heavy machinery, let its coal production fall from 10,000 tons to 1,000 tons a day. Last month their army pulled out, leaving behind 20-odd Soviet mine and railroad officials with orders to operate the Combine jointly with the Chinese. But the technicians sent in by Chungking had other ideas. TIME Correspondent Richard Lauterbach cabled this story of force and face...
...Chneider: "Our presence is not only admitted and approved by both Russia and China, but ordered. I have been informed that a joint commission in Harbin is even now discussing the future of Fushun. Until they reach a decision, the Combine continues to belong to the Sino-Soviet Changchun Railroad. Surely we do not intend just to sit around and drink tea. Maybe it is a Chinese custom to drink tea in the office, but it is not a Soviet...
...sidewalks of Madras when he feels tired, or to declare himself a saint and sit waiting for disciples by the burning ghats of Benares; or to send out a seven-year-old child with a dead baby dangling from its hand to beg in Calcutta's Howrah railroad station...
Ganso Azul had become a legend since the day in 1929 that a U.S. geologist, studying the trackless Montana for a possible railroad, spotted from the air what has since been described as the nearest thing to a perfect geological oil dome. A 2,800-mile supply line up the Amazon, oil diplomacy, and proliferating jungle postponed the payoff till 1939. Then Ganso Azul drilled a well that was a honey: 750 barrels a day. Thenceforth, the problem was not producing but selling...