Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad between Tientsin and Chinwangtao, four hours a day, Pfc. John J. Janes of the U.S. Marines stands guard at "Bridge 21." A husky young veteran from Grafton, W.Va., wounded at Okinawa, Janes is one of 47,000 marines now on duty in China. Like most of them, he is homesick and his morale is low-for a marine, very...
...Doggie Trick." In the absence of adequate explanation there are anomalies that might puzzle stouter heads than the leathernecks'. Though they have been told that they are in China to disarm and repatriate Japs, they find other Japs, still armed, standing railroad guard duty alongside them. The marines' word for this is "jacfu"-joint American-Chinese foul...
...shuffled off to Buffalo and got a job designing wallpaper. Sundays he painted literal descriptions of the more depressing sights he saw around town. They sold well enough for him to retire to suburban Gardenville in 1929 and concentrate on showing the U.S. its dreary back streets and railroad sidings. Burchfield has the unassuming confidence of a man who has learned a lot slowly, believes that now, in combining fantasy and realism, he has come full circle. Says he: "All the rest was a sort of preparation. I am now beginning to do the things I was really intended...
...Milwaukee Co., during the last seven years, had had annual average earnings before fixed charges of $25,963,740, while fixed charges were at a yearly average of only $23,481,841. The profits only started with the five-year wartime traffic boom which pulled many another U.S. railroad...
...stockholders hoped that the Reed bill, introduced in Congress on Nov. 23, would add weight to their petition. Under its terms a bankrupt railroad whose average earnings for seven years have covered its fixed charges can be taken out of the courts, handed back to its stockholders. The Milwaukee's stockholders hoped to stave off approval of the reorganization until they had a chance of preserving their investment...