Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousand Maltas. Everywhere mixed-nationality teams made confused but increasing progress. Grain that may save 400,000 lives was now moving along the Dalmatian coast. Because railroads and bridges were smashed, leaving only goat paths, UNRRA had sent U.S. railroad locomotives. Hungry men worked slowly and happily, unloading UNRRA ships in Greek and Italian ports...
...problem there was getting the railroad cars to the West Coast over the spindly western roads. To do the job, the eastern roads stripped themselves to pool some 2,000 passenger cars. On the Western Pacific, long strings of New Haven and Boston and Maine commuter coaches deadheaded through Feather River Canyon, far from home. Lehigh Valley and Florida East Coast coaches swayed and rattled over the Rockies on the single tracks of the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific...
...limped into terminals as much as 20 hours late. In Chicago's Dearborn station, some 15,000 civilians stampeded to get aboard trains, lost shoes and baggage in the struggle. City and military police were called on the double-quick to quell the riot. The New York Central Railroad stopped the sale of all tickets on trains eastbound from Chicago. In Washington's Union Station, "recesses" were called for hour periods to help clear the jampacked station. All over, passengers missed connections, had no choice but to camp in stations...
...Federal Trade Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Securities Exchange Commission, the National Mediation Board, the National Railroad Adjustment Board, the Railroad Retirement Board, U.S. Corps of Engineers (civil functions division...
...World Publishing Co. The sales were big enough to convince World that it would be worthwhile to sell cheap books where they had not been sold before. Last week International Circulation Co. (a Hearst subsidiary) began to sell World's 49? Tower books on 20,000 newsstands in railroad stations, supermarkets, cigar stores...