Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect the Nationalist hold on the Tientsin-Kalgan corridor, the Generalissimo last November dispatched one of his crack generals, Fu Tso-yi. While Fu prepared an offensive, Communist demolition squads struck swiftly and by night. They made 100 small breaks in the railroad. Fu chased them away and repaired the breaks; but he had lost valuable time...
Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end of the Japanese war.) Another Communist army moving southward cut the west arm. The Communists appeared to have made good on their promise to "nail the Nationalists to the Chengchow cross...
...Yangtze Valley was cut off from wheat and coal from the west. Spearheads of Communist raiders stabbed river defenses west of Hankow, looking for a soft spot southward into the Szechuan and Honan rice fields. If they crossed the Yangtze, they would next try to cut the Canton-Hankow railroad...
...road cuts across the foreground of most of Hopper's paintings. Sometimes it becomes a city street, or a railroad embankment, or a porch step, but it is there-a constant reminder of transience...
...story goes that passengers got so used to late trains that they came late to catch them. But they hardly expected to see, even on the eccentric Rock Island, the automobile, equipped with railroad wheels, that came down the track one day in 1936. In it was a man who looked like Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was John Dow Farrington, 56. A railroader since 18, he had just been hired away from the Burlington Lines to pull the rocky Rock Island together. And he spent most of his first six months riding its 7,650 miles of track (much...