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Word: rails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai from western China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Stranglehold | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...vicious finance." The Interstate Commerce Commission declared it was not in the public interest. In a last-ditch stand, Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter cried that it would cause "a scandal." Nevertheless Congress last week, in a brisk mood, passed and sent the Wheeler-Reed rail reorganization bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peter & Paul | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Question for the Future. Italians were trying to help themselves. The nation's heavy industry was at a near 80% of capacity; rail transport was approaching normal; repaired harbors were handling a swelling flow of exports-$70,000,000 since Jan. 1; electric kilowatt-hours in the first four months this year were one million over the same period last year; the wheat crop, six million tons, was four-fifths of the prewar average. The 1946 raw silk estimate was the highest in history. Even inventors were busy: in Milan last week an auto-plane rolled at 40 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: For Keeps? | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Some millions of them were headed for Canada-green, fresh, cool and twice as big as all outdoors. By road, rail and rattletrap they went. In the hot August sun their cars headed north around Lake Champlain and Memphremagog, or along the orange-colored cliffs of Lake Superior and the blue water of Puget Sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Innocents Abroad | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...First he went to bat for through transcontinental sleeping car service at Chicago and St. Louis-and scored (TIME, April 1). Next time up, he got a base hit on his campaign against the black market in Pullman reservations. ICC approved Pullman's suggested changes on rail reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Tenements? | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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