Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roviano, sly Scacchi used different tactics. He appeared conspicuously at Christmas and Easter Mass, even appointed himself to march the communicants to the rail in orderly fashion. His motto: "Above party divisions, we are first of all the village." Christian Democrats grumbled but could not complain openly...
From a loudspeaker outside the Brass Rail Theater Bar, a smoky, crowded joint on Chicago's brassy Randolph Street, came hard, driving music. One old connoisseur who heard it stopped in his tracks and said, "My God. it's Bix." But the sign in the window said Jimmy MacPartland. It was Jimmy playing the golden cornet that Jazz Immortal Bix Beiderbecke had given him years...
...members of the Kuomintang* and four each from the other three groups. There were vacant council chairs for the Communists on terms nobody in China expected Communists to accept: 1) recognize the authority of the broadened Government in Nanking; 2) let go their intermittent grip on North China rail lines...
...narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to reach Anapolis, gateway to the rich backlands, and longer if the trip is made by road. But from the lush lowlands of the north and the coffee fazendas to the south, 50,000 Brazilians a year are passing through muddy, roughhewn Anapolis in search of new homes and new times, just as U.S. pioneers a century ago left the Atlantic coast and headed west...
Would it? Some airmen did not think so. With air fares now about 50% higher, mile for mile, than rail fares, the airlines were bound to lose some of their present traffic to railroads by a further increase. Airline troubles, compounded of over expansion and falling traffic, were too deep-seated for any quick cure...