Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they also struck heavily at German fortifications on the coast, presumably in the spots where lighter craft had not done the job. Major General Lewis Brereton, boss of the Ninth (tactical) Air Force, which will give close support to the invasion, sent his mediums against the coast, airfields, railroad centers. Swarms of his fighter bombers also hacked from dawn to dusk, bored deeply inland...
...gain control of the Chinese-held stretch of the 775-mile long Peiping-Hankow Railroad. The Chinese had removed the rails and ruined the rail bed, but the ambitious Japanese may hope to rebuild the key line. Then a similar campaign could be launched to the south, to seize the Hankow-Canton railway. A 1,522-mile trunk railroad, spanning China's length from the Yellow to the South China Sea, would be worth a million tons of shipping to Japan...
...Railroad. A 30-year-old Slovenian private lost his wife and five-year-old son when the Italians came to his town. His mother and sister were sent to forced labor in Germany. The private joined the Liberation Movement. When the Allies invaded Sicily, the Germans were using Trieste as an embarkation point for southern Italy. Each day for a month the private and his fellow Partisans cut the German-controlled railroad from Ljubljana to Trieste. The Germans cut down the forest on either side of the right of way, installed high-tension wires, built pillboxes every 500 yards...
...crossed winds of his time. He liked the Indians but killed scads of them, loved the plains but did more than any one man to turn them into a bone yard. As the picture also shows, he deeply suspected the East, as represented by his wife and by railroad capitalists, and made difficulties for himself by telling off the latter in favor of the Indians. And at length he recouped his fortunes by diluting into showmanship the curious honest grandeur he had known when he was young...
...ICCommissioner he gained the gratitude of the railroads by helping them streamline the archaic regulations governing freight routings. Last month, aware of the increasing threat of the manpower shortage to the railroads, he recommended that all railroad employes now in the Army but not overseas be demobilized and returned to their jobs...