Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the old Shah's splenetic energy also bulldozed medieval Iran into building an 860-mile railroad to span the country from north to south, erecting schools and factories, changing the country's name from provincial Persia to national Iran, abandoning the veil for women, accepting movies and traffic lights...
Custom-Built Tickets. Standing in line for railroad tickets may soon be a thing of the past. In a matter of seconds, a new machine developed jointly by the National Cash Register Co. and the Southern Railway delivers a ticket freshly printed with destination and price to the customer...
...State Gives. A bill passed by Congress will repeal the U.S. Government's low rates on "land-grant railroads." Under the grants, the Government subsidized southern and western railroad building with 131 million acres of land. In return, the roads gave the Government a 50% reduction in rates for transportation of military supplies and troops. Total Government savings: about...
...Nazi general to be executed for war crimes fell before a U.S. firing squad in Aversa, Italy last week. General Anton Dostler was shot because he had ordered the execution of 15 American soldiers who were captured behind German lines in March 1944 while trying to blow up a railroad tunnel. Dostler's defense was that he acted on Hitler's orders. The court held that, even with explicit instructions from above, to shoot uniformed men without trial is against the code...
Rice and flour have been coming to General Tu's armies from Shanghai through the port of Chinwangtao. Supplies started moving north this week beyond the Great Wall over the Peiping-Mukden railroad, which so far has suffered relatively minor damage. At Mukden there will be more rice and flour, unless the Russians or Communists have cleared them out. If heavy fighting develops, ammunition supplies will be another problem: ammunition must still come up from the south...