Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Abdul Kareem el-Kassim, 42, who had been ordered to lead his men into Jordan to bolster King Hussein against a coup, led them instead into sleeping Baghdad. Silently, and without firing a shot, his soldiers took over the key points of the city. One by one the railroad station, the main intersections, the post and telegraph offices and the radio station were surrounded. By the time the troops began heading for the palace of 23-year-old King Feisal, an excited mob was at their heels...
...Catholic chaplain of the Massachusetts house of representatives and chapel administrator at Boston's South Station, Monsignor Christopher P. Griffin prayed in the house last week for a bill granting a subsidy to the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony commuter line. Prayed he: "Heavenly Father, you know what is in my heart-so teach me the prayer today. How, 0 Lord, wouldst thou pray if thine own temple were now on the Old Colony line?" Turning to the legislators, he continued: "I pray for you, now it is your turn to pray over...
...spite of its comparative feebleness, Kiwi-A will do its reacting all by itself. The nearest humans will be at a control point 1½ miles away. When the test is over, Kiwi-A, still intensely radioactive, will be drawn along a railroad track by a remotely controlled locomotive and tucked into a shielded area where it can be inspected by nonhuman hands controlled from behind thick shields...
...trials of playing the bush are formidable. The Queensland Symphony Orchestra, for instance, travels 3,500 miles a year in four wooden railroad sleeping cars, carrying with it such essentials as stage curtains, lights, primus stoves and portable iceboxes. In the town of Innisfail, instruments too big to go up the hilltop concert hall's narrow stairway were hoisted 80 ft. by steel cables. At Townsville the musicians heard an ominous crackling sound, scrambled offstage seconds before a 30-ft. beam crashed down on their music stands and chairs...
...oilmen would propose a dramatic increase in domestic production to offset loss of the Iraq supply. They are wary of repeating their mistake during the Suez crisis, when they amassed stores of oil so large that production had to be chopped back hard this year. Last week the Texas Railroad Commission boosted the number of producing days in August from nine to eleven, but made it clear that the hike was due to a slight rise in petroleum demand and a reduction of oil inventories rather than to the Iraq crisis...