Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daddy, bound hand & foot across the tracks of Susie's electric railroad set, as a three-car train approaches...
Another move: tall, grey-haired Colonel John Monroe Johnson, ODT boss, recommended that the Army release 50,000 experienced railroad men to help in shifting the fighting men to the West...
Nanning fell. Far south in China, Chinese armies snapped the railroad lifeline (now at last referred to as a line of retreat) for Japan's armies in Malaya, Thailand and Indo-China. Farther north, other Chinese armies hacked doggedly at the same strategic artery whose seizure by Japan a year ago brought China to the brink. On the central coast a third Chinese force, having dislodged the Japanese from the port of Foochow, fanned north and west, preparing a possible landing zone for U.S. forces...
Comeback by McNear. A federal judge decided that hefty, hustling George Plummer McNear Jr., president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R.R., was entitled to get his railroad back after three years of Government operation. Because he refused to grant the railroad brotherhoods a wage raise unless they gave up "featherbedding" (making jobs for themselves), T.P.& W. had a three months' strike...
...seized his 239-mile freight line and still holds it, in spite of McNear's repeated claims of inefficiency under Government operation. Last week, a federal judge ruled that the T.P.& W. should have been returned to McNear in January 1944, when the War Department ordered all railroads returned to their owners. Now he had the law on his side. But he has still to recover his railroad...