Word: rails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enemy's supply and communications. Sluggish at first, the Communists finally reacted, brought in more guns and better crews (some of them believed to be Russian or European). By last week the enemy had so much flak that it was strung out along the North Korean rail lines, in addition to the lethal concentrations around the important targets. In spite of the U.N.'s high losses, the battle has not been one-sided: since Operation Strangle started, the U.N. claims to have destroyed 900 Red antiaircraft gun positions, damaged 443 more...
...they got a contract with the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corp. to store 200,000 bu. of grain. The Spellmans, both in their early 303, began expanding faster. They added to their fleet of trucks, worked into real-estate deals, began shipping grain to Chicago by rail...
...After two years of occupation duty, Draper was called home to become Under Secretary of the Army. Then, before he could get deeply back in investment banking, New York's Governor Dewey asked him late in 1950 to take over the debt-ridden, wreck-ridden Long Island Rail Road. When he accepted, The New Yorker quipped: "He has a good head for aches...
...Grimace. From Communist China came fresh reports of a Red Chinese buildup in the south. The southern city of Nanning is now, thanks to Soviet aid, a big Chinese army base. The Peking government announced that it had completed a rail line south from Nanning to within ten miles of the Indo-Chinese border. Reports from Formosa, not always reliable, said Communist leaders from all Southeast Asia had been summoned to a conference on "the early liberation" of Southeast Asia...
...contrast, heavy snow, icy roads, and a rail strike forced Registrar Sargent Kennedy to pardon last February's late-comers. He termed the hindrances "acts...