Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the mountains, Castro's sabotage campaign damaged stored sugar, a railway warehouse, a railroad line. Bombs exploded nightly in Havana. The center of civil resistance was Santiago, where Castro has become a romantic hero. There, 26 women were arrested for marching through the streets with a Cuban flag and posters protesting the "killing of our children," and ordering Batista's police chief...
...illustrate what the faculty is doing and thinking, the movie will concentrate on one particular member: Ernest R. May, assistant professor of History. He will be followed during a typical day, starting from the time he leaves his home in Lexington and takes the Boston and Maine Railroad to North Cambridge. Such a depiction should by its very nature interest alumni; it will also point out, however, how hard faculty members must work, how low, comparatively, are their salaries, and how difficult it is to find decent, reasonably priced homes in Cambridge...
...weeks of talk the British were adamant. France, West Germany and Japan were equally eager but not so outspoken. The U.S. argued that though China might get the same goods anyway through Russia, the added delay and cost retarded Chinese industrialization and imposed a strain on the trans-Siberian Railroad. The British retorted that most Western goods are transshipped by sea at Gdynia, Poland, are sent in Communist bottoms to Shanghai, bypassing Hong Kong...
...about $50 million for improvement by the end of 1960. Chicago alone is putting $24 million into its Lake Calumet Harbor Development, has already added a mile-long dock, two grain elevators (total capacity: 13 million bu.), three modern cargo sheds (capacity: 300,000 sq. ft.), ten miles of railroad and five miles of access roads. Milwaukee is investing $11.2 million. Among its projects: a $5,500,000 steel pier that will jut 1,020 ft. into Lake Michigan and a $1,300,000 pier in the outer harbor. Duluth, working with $10 million allotted by the Minnesota legislature, will...
...with envy of their boots. (In a devastating aside, Dutourd suggests that the money poured into the Maginot Line might better have been spent on boots for the French army.) It was assumed that the war was nearly over, that the Germans would send the prisoners home on free railroad passes. But Dutourd got away. He carries modesty about his three-year stint with the Resistance to the point of devoting half a sentence...