Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure enough, Halsey struck again. Four days later his carrier planes thundered up again out of the dawn. Some struck Hokkaido (pop. 3,300,000), which had never been bombed before. Some struck northern Honshu. Some struck in Tsugaru Strait, where the railroad and automobile ferries run between Aomori (on Honshu) and Hakodate (on Hokkaido), almost the only link between the two islands...
...fortune of the Scott family is cast together with the steel-made poverty of ironworker Pat Rafferty and family. The rise of Scott-hating Rafferty's daughter Mary as a maidservant in the Scott home, eventually to marry into the family, serves to weave the two sides of the railroad track into one history...
...also to reverse itself (as in the Jehovah's Witnesses case), Justice Roberts had plunked down a few tart phrases of his own. Said he: the Court had now set forth on an "uncharted sea of doubt and difficulty"; some of its decisions were like a "restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...
Timorous stockholders, who have borne previous Budd spending (Budd ideas have sometimes lost money at a million a clip), shuddered. But they had small reason. The company had over $19 million in working capital, and already held backlog orders for 700 railroad cars. Budd also expects to expand its truck-trailer business, plus its customary body-building orders from Ford, International Harvester, Chrysler, G.M., Nash and Studebaker. The railroad orders alone are greater than the company's entire prewar output...
...inch railroad cannon, probably the biggest gun ever made (and used by the Germans at Sevastopol), which fired an 8-ton shell...