Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other three routes, none as heavily-used as the Silk Road, are: 1) the 1,800-mile Sian-Urga motor road, once a caravan trail across the limitless sands of the Gobi Desert, 2) the 1,350-mile rail and road route from Kunming down to British Burma, and 3) the newly-built Chinese railroad from Kunming to Laokai, which connects with the French Indo-China railroad. Hundreds of miles of other new roads connecting these main routes to many parts of the new "New China" have also been built...
...Orleans detectives caught up with the Musicas aboard the S. S. Heridia just as it was about to cast off. Philip tried to barricade the stateroom door. Louise rushed to the rail, pulled $18,000 out of her corset, tried to throw it overboard. Grey-bearded Antonio cried: "I am disgraced!" and tried to kill himself...
...intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven hours at a stretch with Mexico's shaggy, shrewd Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najara. Submitting to an Equatorial initiation by Neptune (Eugene P. Thomas of the National Foreign Trade Council), Mr. Landon was pronounced guilty of "high...
...sittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office. *After attending a San Diego preview of Submarine Patrol, Actor Greene last fortnight set off with his valet on a hunting trip in the Kaibab National Forest. When he failed to telephone his mother as he had promised, forest rangers, rail-road agents, and 100 CCC workers, started a search for Actor Greene. Twenty-four hours later, he was discovered at Williams, Ariz...
...reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...