Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warrior could have been found for Operation Popgun than Captain Trimmer, onetime ladies' hairdresser on the Aquitania. But the submarine lost its way, and the trembling Trimmer found himself leading the first Britons since Dunkirk back onto the French coast. Somehow Trimmer's sergeant blew up a rail line, while the press officer quoted tipsy encouragement to the captain. "For God's sake, come on," squeaked Trimmer from the small boat, as the sappers returned. "Be of good comfort, Master Trimmer, and play the man," urged the press officer. "We shall this day light such a candle...
...colonial Philadelphia, there was a printer who was likewise a scientist, and who was hailed as the wisest man of his day . . . In 19th century Illinois, there was a rail splitter who was likewise a lawyer and who was hailed a champion of humanity . . . Education today can nurture for us the possibility of a thousand Franklins and a thousand Lincolns in a generation, where before we were fortunate to have...
...this ancient pomp, there was one concession to scruffy present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers...
Ceremony over, the new Commons quickly reverted to its workaday manners. The Queen's speech, said Attlee tartly, "was paved with good intentions"; and he launched an attack on Eden's handling of the rail strike, then in its second week. When Laborites jeered at an Eden sally, Eden snapped: "The trouble with members opposite is that they all want-to be leaders at once." The gibe struck home, reducing the Labor benches to momentary glum silence...
...miles between the coal company's Georgetown, Ohio mining properties and the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. plant at Eastlake, near Cleveland. It will carry as much as 1,200,000 tons of "slurry" (pulverized coal mixed with water) annually at an estimated $1 a ton cheaper than rail freight. Completion date: late...