Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed interested in everything the ship's crew did. Standing at the rail one sunny morning, he watched the ship's company solve a battle problem, intrigued by the smoke bombs. He told the enlisted men first about the atomic bomb-casually, as if chatting with old old friends, at chow...
...business, he wrote on a portable desk with a lamp (almost the whole of Bar Chester Towers was so written). En route to Egypt, to conclude a Postal Treaty with the Egyptian Government, he wrote his way across the Bay of Biscay, pausing between paragraphs to rush to the rail and vomit...
...morning last week two bridge painters saw something new. A hundred yards from where they were working, a little girl with straw-blond curls stood on a girder outside the safety railing. While they gaped in astonishment, she plunged into space. Then a man quickly climbed the rail and dived after her, even before the girl's body had struck the racing tide of San Francisco Bay, 220 ft. below...
California is pouring most of her 952,000 barrels a week westward; Texas and the Gulf fields are shipping another 2,700,000 barrels by ship and by rail & pipeline to East and West Coast ports; the Middle East is supplying another 566,000 barrels a day. Before long, oil may again be coming out of Borneo. But it may be only a trickle of 55,000 barrels daily...
Transport. The rail profits, which began to slip in 1943 when the roads moved into the excess-profits brackets, were still going slowly down. The Interstate Commerce Commission reported that in the first five months profits of all Class I roads were down to $439,677,038 from...