Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notably at the 1937 inaugural when the drops came down like icicles, although generally the Roosevelt luck with weather had been fabulous. But it had never rained more incessantly and gloomily than now. It had begun long before 9:50 a.m., when Franklin Roosevelt climbed out of his private railroad car at the Brooklyn Army base. He eased himself into the black Packard, ordered the canvas top drawn back, and threw the Navy cape about his broad shoulders...
Then Tom Dewey quickened his attack: "The New Deal has posed for years as the friend-of labor. But today it has turned collective bargaining into political bargaining." He recited the 13-month struggle of railroad workers for a pay increase, after which "Mr. Roosevelt seized the railroads to forestall a national disaster which he himself had prepared. And after he did that he graciously gave the very wage increase to which the railway workers had been entitled for over a year...
...most of the Germans in northern Finland were dug in near the nickel mines and the Norwegian frontier. Colonel General Lothar Rendulic had two divisions in the far north based on the Norwegian port of Kirkenes (35 miles northwest of Petsamo); three divisions were based farther south on the railroad town of Rovaniemi (65 miles north of the Gulf of Bothnia...
...Hungarian front line, Yugoslavia and Greece were mere mop-up operations. Belgrade, the "white city," wise in the ways of war, was again a battlefield. Russians and Yugoslav Partisans were fighting in its streets, where Germans had erected pillboxes, antitank obstacles and gun emplacements. To the south, the railroad-junction city of Nish was captured by Partisans and Bulgarians...
Umbrella Salesman. Easy-mannered Byron Nelson has come a long way since he worked as a clerk for the Fort Worth & Denver City Railroad, practicing golf in the evenings, before the depression knocked him out of a job. In 1932, he made his first professional golf tour and earned exactly $12.50. This year, with his average of 3.85 strokes a hole, he has picked up #39,875 in war-bond prizes, worth $29,906.25 in cash...