Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With infinite patience, for 96 days, the commissioners had listened to more than 100 witnesses-representatives of airlines and aircraft plants, top men from Government departments, railroad men, bankers, scientists, educators and labor leaders-whose testimony filled 4,000 pages. The chief question they had to answer was: What is an adequate force...
Trouble on the Rails. It had hardly begun before it caused a railroad wreck. The second section of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Missourian crashed into the rear of the first section, which was running slowly in heavy snow near Syracuse, Mo. Fourteen people were killed, among them Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Spain, and his wife. Forty-four were injured...
...under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead too), and no money for a railroad ticket because the local bank vault was operated by electricity...
Yugoslavia, according to St. John, was loaded down with physical burdens but miraculously buoyed up by love for Marshal Tito. Volunteers laboring on "the 1946 Youth Railroad" sang joyous songs declaring that "America and Britain will be proletarian lands some day too." "Brigades" of sun-bronzed youths, encamped in "pleasing" barracks, assured the visitors that they toiled "in harmony [without any] need for discipline." Author St. John gave one of the girl workers an American lipstick, asking her "when she looked at it ... to remember that in our country there are young people who also have freshness and ideals...
Like Admiral Byrd. The rachitic Long Island Railroad (which carries more commuters than any other U.S. railroad) bogged down most completely. Its electric trains got stalled and so did the steam locomotives sent out to rescue them. Many a passenger spent the night in an unheated coach, smoking cigarettes, dreaming of food and drink...