Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Light Touch. In Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Railroad investigated high maintenance costs, finally charged two employees with stealing 250,000 electric bulbs...
Canadian Pacific (20th Century-Fox) digs up a job worthy of Randolph Scott: building a railroad to link Canada's coasts. Troubleshooter Scott squares his jaw against villainous trappers, savage redskins and the Canadian Rockies (in Cinecolor). With the love of two good women (Jane Wyatt and Newcomer Nancy Olson), he finally gets the trains running, but not until Canadian Pacific has dallied at every whistle stop on an over-traveled, one-track story line...
...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...
Most Hungarian Jews want to emigrate to Israel, but have been forbidden to do so. Some get out by paying a $750 fee to an underground railroad operated by Zoltan Vas as a sideline. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government, which is negotiating the terms of a trade agreement with Israel, is using the Jews for bargaining purposes. It has declared that it will permit the Jews to emigrate, but with a sharp proviso: the property each emigrant takes with him is balanced off against bananas, lemons and other future imports to Hungary from Israel...
Brazilians and Argentines also have their eyes on the oil. Fighting malaria, dysentery and Indians' arrows, the Brazilians have rammed a narrow-gauge railroad 240 miles westward across the Oriente's jungle. With luck, they will link Sao Paulo and Rio with Santa Cruz by December 1950, later extend the line to Cochabamba to complete South America's third transcontinental railway. From the south an Argentine standard-gauge spur is now abuilding toward Santa Cruz...