Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where he was born 60 years ago; his schoolteacher mother and blacksmith father; the black columns of Popolo d'ltalia, "my most cherished child"; the day in Milan when he needlessly barricaded his newspaper shop while his comrades elsewhere marched on Rome and waited until he arrived by railroad sleeper; the following day when, in black shirt and hip pistol, he stood before Vittorio Emanuele and said: "I have just come from a bloodless battle that had to be fought. I bring back to your Majesty the Italy of Vittorio Veneto, consecrated by a new victory...
Bombs Away. At 11:13 a.m. the first bomb bay opened. Chief target was the immense railroad marshaling yard about four miles from St. Peter's, two miles from the Forum, one and a half miles from the Fascist Government offices. The Allied communique understated: "The marshaling yard ... is of greatest importance to the Axis war effort, and in particular for the movement of German troops." The smashing of Rome's central rail terminal would mean the smashing of Italy's main north-south communications, would go a long way toward paralyzing reinforcement of southern Italy...
...Gould-Richardson simplification approaches Tibetan along a new trail familiar to children who have played with codes. It breaks down the study of the language into syllables and corresponding numbers. Using both, the student can put together words (lam means road, lam-chak means railroad, lam-yik means passport) and can link up written forms with phonetic values. Handy Tibetan phrases...
This means that every dollar earned between June 1 and Dec. 31, after payment of taxes and operating expenses, will be clear net profit. But railroad stockholders are still a long way from jingling the profits in their pockets. Still to be decided are wage demands of 1,350,000 operating and nonoperating rail employes. Possible cost: approximately $400,000,000 annually...
...Shofner, 43, only steelwoman on the West Coast, has had little time for ordinary partygoing. Married in 1919, she took over her husband's railroad brake-shoe foundry at Linnton, Ore. when he died four years later. Mrs. Shofner did not like the cut of the brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...