Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slowness and weakness of the first Nazi counterattacks at Remagen probably reflected a shortage of transport and fuel -and certainly they reflected the massive Allied air campaign against the German rail net which last week roared into its fourth week without a single day's interruption. Field Marshal von Rundstedt must have been thrown badly off balance. He had no doubt counted on plenty of time to regroup his forces, while Eisenhower prepared for the "naval operation" of crossing a bridgeless Rhine...
...Progress. Overhead the bombers still roared. Scores of other cities, the nerve centers of industrial Germany, were being attacked as Cologne was. Day & night for almost a straight month the fleets have been out. Last week, in air columns 200 miles long, they hammered at the Ruhr and the rail centers of western Germany...
...Germans all hope was gone of a blow from the Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...
...declare that it is the role of the State to ensure the adequate exploitation of the great sources of energy-coal, electricity, oil-as well as of the chief means of transport by rail, sea and air. ... It is the State which must dispose of credit. . . ." (Applause from the Left...
...second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even the railroads could get their barest needs: the Office of Defense Transportation request for 1.5 million tons of steel for badly needed new cars and rail was cut by one-third...