Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ward executive suggested putting the picture on the cover of Ward's next catalogue, with a caption "We take orders from everybody." Put down on the sidewalk, Sewell Avery bowed slightly to his carriers, walked across the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad tracks to a waiting limousine...
...scope, had not yet fully shifted to the ferocious concentration on German military communications which would be the logical "attack bar rage" directly before invasion. Main Allied air objectives were still: 1) German air industry, 2) air power in being, 3) other industry, 4) Western Europe's railroad system...
...importance of this action was evident. A year ago carriers could not have penetrated Norwegian waters without grave risk; the Nazis were keeping up a stout cover of land-based fighters over the shipping which must supplement Norway's rudimentary railroad system. The carrier-borne attack which crippled the Tirpitz showed that the cover was thinning. Last week's communique indicated that it was practically nonexistent. The Germans needed all their fighters to protect the heartland...
...tunnel-busters is Major William Benedict, who is the son of a San Quentin Penitentiary guard. He was credited last week with five railroad tunnels "destroyed" (i.e.,completely blocked). So dangerous is this work deemed to be that Benedict, a squadron commander, personally attends to all tunnel-busting required of his outfit...
...mile-long Moffat Tunnel the radio conked out. But otherwise the first two-way FM radio communication link between engine and caboose was a success. It was tested last week on a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad heavy freight, making a 1,140-mile round trip between Denver and Salt Lake City...