Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nature has seldom devised a more demanding steeplechase than the Grand National at England's Aintree with its 4½-mile course and 30 jumps over brush, fence, rail and water, including famed, treacherous Becher's Brook. Last week a crowd of 250,000, including a big contingent of Irishmen and a flock of hopeful holders of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets, turned out to watch the 108th running of the Grand National and shudder at the spills. The footing was soggy and spills came early: three horses went down at the first jump, two at the second. Only...
They Muck In. By using mechanical equipment of all kinds, less than 2% of the man-hours worked were spent in handling materials. When rail deliveries were slow, the Americans sent trucks out all over the country to collect materials. When work was slowed on one job because of a materials shortage, employees were instantly transferred to another job. And to keep supervisors on their toes, the project manager issued a daily list of general instructions and production questions "in taut, straightforward language." Sample: "Mallory- what happened to the radial...
...into one system," said Sun Yat-sen long ago, "then China's people would have cheap food to eat." Red China and the Soviet Union are now building Sun Yat-sen's railroads, with a notably different purpose. They mean, by 1957, to bring Communist power by rail into Asia's heartland, to forge new steel bands across the world's greatest continent and to consolidate their grand alliance...
...Have You Seen Him?" In Seoul, 40 miles to the south, some 8,000 Koreans were swarming into a bullet-pocked suburban station to greet the first Korean P.W.s, who were coming by rail...
...part broadcasts of Ballo last week and this week, the maestro unobtrusively slipped on his spectacles just before he administered the downbeat. But although his figure was bent with age, it still bent flexibly with the music. His left hand, which he sometimes used to hold the podium rail, stiffly waved, patted and sliced the air while the world's most expressive baton all but drew pictures of the sounds he wanted. The orchestra played its heart out, and the soloists and chorus outdid themselves, actually made the old war horse sound like a Class One opera...