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Word: railroads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Railroad passengers who have long endured the lurching promiscuity of the open-section sleeper, the hop-skip-&-jump down the leg-barred aisle of a club car or the dubious amenities of a coach wash room are due for something better, and very soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions in Cars | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...last week there was one piece in the paper which made Boss Crump's bushy eyebrows rise. It was a letter to the editor of the Press-Scimitar, written by Wisconsin-born Mrs. Lee Richardson, wife of a railroad worker, mother of four sons, a Memphian for eight years. Wrote House-wife-Citizen Richardson : "I am not satisfied here, have never been. Those who do not approve of conditions here are advised to keep their mouths shut. From where I stand it seems that those who kept their mouths shut are to blame for the shameful conditions here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: The Boss Forgives | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Unfair. Railroad men winced at airline advertising gleefully announcing the end of air-travel priorities by Oct. 15. Quietly the railroads were urging that: 1) the Office of Defense Transportation relax its ban on sleeping-car runs of less than 450 miles; 2) the Army turn back a few of the 895 sleepers grabbed from the railroads in July, when troop movements were at their peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Facts & Figures, Sep. 24, 1945 | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: People Going Crazy | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...France has asked for $240 million for river barges and railroad equipment (including 27,000 cars and locomotives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Political Loans | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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