Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial statement, the Review prescribes the lines of the symposium. The editors cite the tradition of the intellectual's rejection of America the expatriates who felt with Henry James that "the soil of American perception is a poor, little, barren, artificial deposit" and those who remained at home to rail against the "booboisic" and capitalist reaction. All this has changed, however, the editors declare. "The American artist and intellectual no longer feels 'disinherited' . . . most writers . . . want to be very much a part of American life." Essential to this change, the Review decides, is the recognition of America as the defender...
...invite the Politburo to govern us. Korea is neither Truman's war nor Stalin's war; it is another battle in the continuing struggle for the survival of Christian civilization, like Tours, Lepanto, Guadalcanal, and some lesser engagements like the one at the Little Big Horn. Brass-rail strategists would do well to acquaint themselves with the facts and lessons of history. Imperial Rome withered and decayed and was sacked by her mercenaries...
Fifty-nine passengers were hurt, only eight seriously (the worst injury was a fractured pelvis). No one in the station was injured. And Engineer Brower-who had stuck courageously to his cab and kept his "hand upon the throttle and his eye upon the rail" until the bitter end- stepped out of the awful wreckage of the locomotive without a scratch to show for his experience...
...addition to the ship, air, rail and truck routes the map shows for the materials needed for each issue, some paper is hauled by barge. TIME paper is transported down the Willamette River to Portland, transferred to an ocean-going steamer that moves through the Panama Canal, and finally hauled by barge up the Mississippi River to Chicago. TIME Inc. also owns a barge which carries paper from Bucksport. Me. for use in its other publications. This barge travels across inland waterways and up the Great Lakes to Chicago during the summer months, and coastwise to Philadelphia when the lakes...
...mile Union Pacific makes more money than any other U.S. railroad, but spends it freely for improvements. Though only sixth in rail mileage and fifth in revenues,* U.P. plowed $102,300,000 this year into one of the biggest building programs in its go-year history. Last week President Arthur Stoddard fired up U.P. for another big expansion...