Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. Railroader Gray, whose late father was president of the Union Pacific, is a crack organizer who, as a red-tape-hating general in World War II, won the high respect of both Eisenhower and Omar Bradley for his ability to push rail lines into one side of a European town almost before German forces could retreat out the other...
...tenths gone already. The columns of Communist General Lin Piao were pulling back a few dozen li after a punishing six-week offensive there. The Communists had not attempted to storm cities like Mukden and Changchun. They had been satisfied with attrition and wreckage. Along 150 miles of Manchuria rail lines they had warped rails to uselessness over bonfires of railroad ties. They had carted away the Manchuria harvest, disrupted coal and electricity supplies. The winter of 1947-48 would be bitter in Mukden and Changchun...
...North China the Communists captured the strategic rail-junction city of Shihchiachuang, seizing its virtually irreplaceable stores of rolling stock, locomotives and military supplies...
...with a Maritime Board to perform the present agency's legislative and judicial functions. The committee also recommended 1) continuation of operating subsidies and training programs; 2) a program to revive the nation's coastwise and intercoastal shipping, through surplus ship sales and the elimination of discriminatory rail rates...
Amber Over Tokyo. Mott asks, but cannot answer, why the field of popular fiction has been so narrow. There have been no lastingly popular American novels on industry, the clipper ships, the rail roads, the Oregon Trail, immigration, the discovery of gold or oil, the movies, radio, or the New Deal. Readers could get good, solidly based historical novels on the fall of Rome or the battle of Waterloo, but not of the Lewis & Clark expedition...