Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving San Francisco, Ike transferred from train to plane. (Mamie, who does not stand altitude well, went on by rail, did some whistle-stopping of her own.) At Long Beach he tried a "prop stop." It worked well: more than 4,000 turned up at the airport. Said Ike: "The so-called professional politicians . . . told me there was one thing you could not do-go to an airport and address a group of American citizens. I was told they simply wouldn't come. So I find out today that . . . those political friends of mine were wrong...
...Gettysburg. The picture had gone unnoticed because it was labeled wrongly. Miss Josephine Cobb, photo chief of the National Archives, isn't sure that the whiskered man is Lincoln, but she has established that it was taken in late 1863 at Hanover Junction, Pa. (on the rail line to Gettysburg) by famed Photographer Mathew Brady...
...heavy woods, two 40-ft. towers have been erected to sail out clay ducks for the hunter in a blind below. For the quail, pheasant and partridge hunter, the store has built a 1,000-ft. fairway lined with corn shocks and rail fences. As the hunter stalks along, an accompanying "triggerman" follows him, releasing fast-flying clay birds that simulate the flights of the different game birds. The price for such fun: about $3 for 25 targets...
Some 150 miles from the Boxer, the guide plane and its robot (or "drone") reached Korea's east coast. The target was a rail-and-road bridge on the Reds' main line from Vladivostok to Wonsan. When the attacking party reached the target area, the AD hung back out of flak range, sent the robot on in. The Hellcat's camera and the AD's TV screen picked up the bridge. The control man in the AD put the robot into a screaming dive, kept his aiming crosshairs on the bridge as he watched it grow...
...sands, thus endangering the future yield. By offering to ship the first barrels for 60? and promising to slice that down to 50? when his volume goes up, Glasco expects to chop a dollar in transportation costs off every barrel that now goes by tanker or rail...