Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy to estimate the degree of Germany's physical destruction. The long arm of Allied bombing and the progress of the Armies had destroyed much of Germany's productive apparatus, notably the railroad system, had left much else spectacularly untouched. Quite possibly both the appearance of Germany's destruction and the appearance of her survival were deceptive...
Beyond all doubt, Ed Stettinius knew how to run his railroad. Some of the San Francisco delegates wondered whether he knew exactly where he was going. But he got full marks for speed and efficiency; he made the rest of the U.S. delegation feel that they were in on the doings; and on occasion he even broke into warm, human rage...
...critics were flourishing as never before (or since) in a happy bond of mutual agreement. On the broad walls of well-to-do Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...
Over the Hump. Ike Tigrett kept on buying up tottering railroads whenever he could get them at bottom prices, and used them to tap new sources of traffic for the G.M. & N. In 1933 he leased the New Orleans Great Northern Railway Co., which soon gave him a line into New Orleans and a chance to bid for export-Si -import freight traffic. In 1940 Tigrett bought the Mobile & Ohio Railroad...
...dusk fell over the little one-street town of Pleasanton (pop. 2,073), 5° plain Texans gathered in the white frame First Baptist Church. Many of the men-ranchers, merchants, peanut farmers, railroad workers-were in shirt sleeves. Their women wore wash dresses. They had come to pray for the success of the San Francisco conference...