Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely prairie stops where the President's train switched engines, and in the busy city terminals where it slipped in & out unannounced, this time there were no conspicuous deployments of military guards to give away the secret. But things get around: crowds jammed railroad platforms several times during the six-day, 16-state cross-country trip. They got only a quick look at the President's chief of staff, Admiral William D. Leahy, or at Fala parading about; the President stayed inside his private car. He was, by his own definition, traveling in "performance of my duties under...
Voice from Afar. That night Franklin Roosevelt sat before a microphone in his private railroad car on the West Coast. His voice blared into the convention hall from giant four-way amplifiers in the rafters of the stadium. As they listened, most of the delegates kept their eyes on the empty speaker's stand, where klieg lights were still focused. The effect was eerie...
General Zakharov's army overran Volkovysk, a junction on the railroad to Bialystok. General Ivan Bagramian reached far to the west of Dvinsk (still in Wehrmacht hands last week), found himself about 100 miles from the Gulf of Riga...
...Story. This afternoon I went down the hill into the cane fields after the tanks and infantry. Along the west side of a little toy railroad there were dead Japanese every few feet. Some of them were blasted beyond recognition. Under a little farmhouse there were six Jap soldiers, all with their right hands missing, their chests blasted. The old story - suicide by hand grenade...
Prodigious Apple. Alma-Ata is a beautiful city amid the snow-capped Altai Mountains. This capital of the Kazak Republic is nearer Chungking than Moscow. It has 400,000 population (40,000 in 1925), was not reached by the railroad until...