Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman strategy. Hundreds of thousands were out of work, and angry. Every day the strike lasted, more were thrown out of work. Hundreds of trains were shunted out of service. The thousands of citizens who had jammed postoffices with Christmas bundles to beat the Government's rail embargo on freight, parcel post and express shipments, raised their voices against Lewis...
...representative of the University Travel Company described the situation from December 19 through 22 as "almost impossible," but added that bus-lines offer some space, and there are always coaches, and that "a few" cancellations on rail and plane reservations may come in later...
Rueff, who was French Minister of Finance from 1936-40 and president of the Inter-Allied Reparations Council immediately following the war, gave a broad outline of the lack of housing, the inadequate food supply, and the widespread damage to rail and road lance of commerce...
Canada might still haul enough wheat by rail to Halifax to meet its promise to Britain. But the race would be close. Britain, which would like an extra 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, is unlikely to get any of it. Canada does not have it to spare, despite a near bumper crop of 418,000,000 bushels...
...democracy" practiced by China's Communists in the strategic northwest, vacated by the Japanese more than a year ago, has seemingly ended in a political mistake rivaling their military failure. This is a conclusion hard to escape after a strenuous plane, truck and rail tour of the Chahar Shansi-Suiyuan border region...