Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgrade. Joining up with Marshal Tito's Partisans, they began their attack on the capital. The Belgrade attack appeared to be part of the Hungary operation, and the swing northward to Germany's side door. Another drive toward Nish, an important position on the Athens-Belgrade railroad, seemed designed to cut off the last Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece. Malinovsky was liquidating the Germans' Balkan venture, with yeoman help from Tito's Partisans and the British in Greece. But while he was carrying out this politico-military mission he was not forgetting the main job. Germany...
...Omsk Josip Broz saw the mass execution of 1,600 striking railroad workers by Tsarist Admiral Kolchak. When the Red Army reached Omsk, Josip Broz joined up. The young Croat who didn't want to fight for the Habsburgs fought through the hard, bitter years of Russia's civil wars...
Died. Frederic Ely Williamson, 68, onetime clerk who rose to be President of the N.Y. Central Railroad (from 1932 until his retirement last September), director of more than 50 U.S. railroads, 1936 winner of the Montclair Yale Club's silver bowl to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...garbage. Most Birmingham cases are workers in a five-block food and grain market section. Part of the trouble is the shortage of garbage cans and lids. Dr. Denison is especially worried by the fact that the rats are daily carrying germs in & out of town on trucks and railroad cars...
...then began his clamor for competitive bidding-he wanted the securities business from which he was excluded thrown open to all comers. After eight years of Stuart drumfire, in 1941 the SEC decreed competitive bidding for utility holding company securities; and last May the ICC ordered competitive bidding for railroad bonds...