Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Communists have completed the conquest of Shihkinchwang, an important rail junction which gives them a position of immense strategic value...
Certain adjustments or additions to H.A.A. Office procedure might smooth the actual processes of ticket application and collection. A rail or employee, or both, would maintain more orderly lines, while some one outside the inviolate reaches of the counter could check application blanks and answer questions before the customer reaches his destination. Prominently displayed signs are needed to remind students which tickets are immediately available as well as to announce the application dates for later contests. Finally, the unutilized outer-office wall might be equipped with a counter, post-office style, to facilitate the filling out of applications, leaving...
...twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need not end their careers in hopeless frustration...
That sort of news gathering would be almost routine to our correspondents in China. China is so big, its rail and road facilities so limited, that the news cannot be covered adequately without air travel. So far this year our bureaumen there have logged 61,000 air miles under, to say the least, Spartan conditions. Generally, they have to ride strapped to bucket seats and hounded by cargoes of currency, munitions, gasoline, melons, bedding, furs, mail, pork, wheat, etc. roped roof-high down the middle aisle. It gives you, they claim, that "living-on-borrowed-time feeling." Shanghai Bureau Chief...
...wedding eve. The story told in court began with a bachelor brawl. Aldrich and three pals wandered around Nanking in a jeep, chased a couple of Chinese girls, and then stopped on the Chungho Bridge. "Hello!" said Aldrich thickly to some Chinese youths perched on the bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither...