Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same list. The President agreed. Nimitz himself demurred; he suggested that the command should go to Vice Admiral William S. Pye, who had taken over temporarily from Kimmel after the disaster. But he accepted his orders, and started west in civilian clothes, under the pseudonym of "Mr. Wainwright," by rail to San Diego, and thence by air to Pearl Harbor...
...Steel hopes to do better when all the bugs of the new plant are out. But it has still to prove that Geneva can turn out steel as cheaply as Eastern plants, as its backers claim, or whether rail rates will be low enough to let it undersell Eastern mills on the West Coast...
After a plea from Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes, some 65,000 miners labored underground an extra day, getting out the coal. But production dropped anyhow, mainly because there were no rail cars to haul the coal to the freezing cities. On top of this, a temporary food shortage was on the way in many an Eastern city. Freight trains as far west as California were shunted on to sidings to wait till the snarl untangled. While they waited, many a grocer cleaned out his shelves...
Trouble on the Way. In New York, the rail jam was the worst. Huge drifts stalled trains in the open country. Passengers had to wade through drifts to nearby farmhouses to spend the night. State troopers went along the highway dynamiting 14-ft. drifts, clearing the roads so that emergency auto caravans could get through with feed for livestock and food for isolated villages and farms. Improvised or ancient sledges turned up in the streets...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, tidying up (by proxy: he is in England) his Dutch Branch ranch near Fort Worth, shipped eight Arabian horses (one stallion, four brood mares, three colts) to his bride in California, Cinemactress Faye Emerson. The shipment went by rail freight...