Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wedding reception preceded the wedding, too. A goodly segment of café society was there: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor; "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the restaurant world's most famed pretender; onetime Glamor Deb Brenda Frazier Kelly; Rail Tycoon Robert R. Young and his wife; and the Marquess of Blandford...
...leisurely and luxurious life. We must be so active that we feel dead if we have no work to do." In U.S.-occupied South Korea, Kim's followers responded promptly. A brass band turned up playing the Internationale in the South Korean dock town of Pusan. Rail and telegraph lines were cut. One twelve-car train was wrecked, and 50 locomotives were put out of action by saboteurs. In scattered clashes with South Korean police, 47 were killed, 150 arrested. At the height of the three-day wave, a group calling itself the "General Strike Committee for South Korea...
...During the week, 270,000 workers were laid off because of fuel and power shortages-200,000 of them in Detroit alone. Rail, river and air transportation was badly disrupted. At subzero temperatures, locomotives were unable to keep up steam pressure. The Ohio River was frozen from shore to shore for the first time in twelve years. Storms at sea delayed the Queen Mary's arrival for two days. In Chicago, where Lake Michigan pilings were so heavily coated with ice that they looked like Sherman tanks (see cut), water-system intakes had to be unclogged with dynamite...
...Orville, a short, neat man with a heavy mustache, stretched himself flat on his stomach on the lower wing, between the two chain-driven propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose unsteadily into the air. For twelve seconds it lurched slowly forward like an uncertain box kite, dipping and bobbing a few feet above the ground, then settled back on to the cold sand...
...saying a word were the five words from Bingham on this matter yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile the hero of the piece could scarcely be reached while in the act, so it would seem, of returning to the Mud First State by rail...