Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important Communist move was a rapid eastward thrust toward the coast, to cut the Shanghai-Canton railroad and encircle Shanghai itself. Another Red force, farther north, was thrusting toward Hangchow, 121 miles from Shanghai. The capture of Shanghai itself seemed near. Its main defense was a pathetic wooden fence, 35 miles long, fashioned from 10-foot stakes (originally UNRRA lumber). In the Shanghai-Hangchow area, 350,000 Nationalist troops were being pressed in a pocket against...
...swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple of chaps that way." With the help of the Amethyst's Chinese mess boy as interpreter, most of the fugitives made it to the railroad, arrived in Shanghai the next...
Beginner's Plum. Georgia-born Fred Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...
Swearing Off. To christen a new 4,000-h.p. diesel-electric locomotive in Cleveland last week, the Erie Railroad used, instead of champagne, a bottle of locomotive smoke. The Erie thus marked the complete conversion from steam to diesels on its Cleveland passenger runs...
...Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Fortune Teller, with Patrice Munsel...