Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia. In less than 48 hours the Lithuanian Government, through their Minister at Tallin, Estonia, handed to the Polish Minister at Tallin a sheaf of promises to resume friendly relations and intercourse with Poland by rail, mail, telegraph...
...Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite the acute food shortage in Leftist Spain. With typical Spanish braggadocio they announced, on landing in France, that they were at once proceeding by rail to Rightist Spain to enlist under General Franco...
Chinese officials minimized the Japanese rail-link snipping at Szeshui, pointed out that there still remained open a five-day highway connection between Hankow and Sian. They announced that at Tungkwan, where the river crooks like an elbow between Shensi and Shansi Provinces, Chinese troops were still holding the main body of Japanese troops to the opposite bank of the river...
...Labor will take the scaling down of duplicate services is not hard to imagine. Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, reiterated his favorite belief that "some of the roads must go through the wringer." How banks and insurance companies, who are heavily interested in rail securities, will like that is also easily predictable. To ICC Chairman Walter M. W. Splawn was attributed a proposal for a special railroad court to push through the reorganization of the 38 Class 1 U. S. railroads now apparently sidetracked forever in the courts. Finally someone asked Franklin Roosevelt when...
...Angeles County 30 people died and the city went through a two-day nightmare, in which rail, telephone and mail service broke down almost completely. For one afternoon the city's means of communication with the outside world was by radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters...