Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minimized; nor could U.S. losses in men and materiel. There the Germans had surged past U.S. garrisons (as at Wiltz and Bastogne), destroying or cutting off large units. In the Bastogne and Arlon areas the surge had cut the wide cement road and the Liège-Metz railroad over which U.S. supplies had moved. In the Saint-Hubert area the Germans were in range of other lateral arteries...
...Britain would: 1) remove her garrisons, except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically, the Ethiopian Government could now choose foreign advisers "wherever it wishes." Presumably this referred to the U.S., which has sent missions to Addis Ababa...
Joseph Ferdinand ("Joe") Gould, Harvard '11, bearded, twinkly, snobbish "last of the [Greenwich Village] bohemians," no kin to famed Railroad Manipulator Jason (Jay) Gould, announced that his uncompleted Oral History of Our Times, now eleven times longer than the Bible, will be ready for publication when the world, "which is now only 20 years behind me, catches up." Now at work on a monograph entitled Why Princeton Should Be Abolished, Harvardman Gould explained: "Most present-day publishers are illiterate and also from Princeton...
...Angeles. Through American City Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of National City Lines, Inc., top holding company in the Fitzgerald chain, the brothers bought the stock of the $50,000,000 Los Angeles Railway Corp. from the estate of Henry E. Huntington, one of the builders of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and collector of art, books and legends. A group of 14 investment banking firms bought the Railway Corp. bonds. Total purchase price: over...
...grabbed up the tangle of lines, sorted them into four efficient systems. By 1910, Los Angeles County probably had the nation's finest interurban system and fastest city lines. But Huntington, worried about the automobile, unloaded everything but the Los Angeles city system on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Los Angeles took to the auto as did few other cities. Huntington could not make his Los Angeles Railway pay. Politicos kept in office for years merely by fighting him and an increase in the 5? fare. When Huntington died in 1927, the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles...