Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force announced, after 36 years of service, 33 of them as a flyer. As commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe at the close of World War II, General Cannon had already won renown as a peerless air tactician. He devised "Operation Strangle," which paralyzed Nazi rail transport in Italy, sometimes flew a fighter over his own bomber formations. As one of the Air Force's pioneer instructors, Cannon has a roster of former pupils reading like a star chart. Among them: General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff; General Hoyt Vandenberg, retired Chief of Staff...
...midst of his busy week, President Eisenhower found time to see his old friend Governor Thomas Dewey, who came down from New York to protest the "unprecedented interference" of the Interstate Commerce Commission with Dewey's efforts to reorganize the bankrupt Long Island Rail Road. The Pennsylvania Railroad had applied to the ICC for a 25% rate increase on the Long Island, which it owns. Dewey felt that, since the Long Island lies wholly within the State of New York, the ICC had no jurisdiction -especially no jurisdiction to raise commuter fares on the residents of two heavily Republican...
Jordan left the field on the shoulders of his team. If the teams were midwestern instead of Ivy League, his rival mentor might well have left the Bowl riding an alumni rail. Both coaches faced a barrage of post-game questions, but two other queries were more pertinent...
...which was first shown last year-a simple, squarish grille, sweeping lines, and not too much cluttering chromium trim. But the Dodge is a brand-new car. Designed as a two-place sports car, it hugs the road like a lizard, features four headlights and a horizontal, propellerlike rub rail sweeping entirely around the car. Chrysler has no idea of mass-producing its new cars, but it did say that some of the graceful designs may find their way into future Chrysler products...
Track Listener. Using principles of wartime land mine detectors, the Pennsylvania Railroad worked out an electronic device that shows up flaws at the juncture of two rail sections, at switches or through paved highway crossings. Operated by a track walker wearing earphones, the machine picks up defects by changing from a high-pitched tone to a growl...