Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before daybreak one morning last week, U.N. troops began a "limited" attack northward toward the rail, road and supply center of Kumsong, 30 miles above the parallel. First the Reds fell back under U.N. napalm and artillery, then they turned, loosed a fierce artillery barrage, the heaviest since April. Some 500 shells dropped on U.N. positions at the rate of two a minute. But the U.N. troops held. Next night there was artillery again and 200 rounds of heavy mortar fire. Under cover of the artillery, the Reds sent small infantry forces forward. It looked as if the Reds were...
...paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line, the Perónista press and radio launched a vicious attack on the paper. Recalling that La Prensa had been similarly attacked for objective reporting of last January's rail strike, observers wondered whether this might be a prelude to a final...
Both were talking about the Interstate Commerce Commission's latest directive to U.S. railroads, ordering them, to file uniform freight rates on rail shipments of manufactured goods to all parts of the U.S. east of the Rockies by Jan. 1. Southerners have long complained that freight rates have been stacked against the South; e.g., it is 20% cheaper to ship some goods from Chicago to New York (890 miles) than from Atlanta to New York (868 miles). By removing these differentials, ICC's order-following a 1947 Supreme Court decision holding such rates discriminatory-will save Southern businessmen...
...long seemed remote. Who had yet captured their fancy in battle and who now had dared to rail against waste, hyprocrisy and folly in our current administration...
Thus, last week, the film industry recorded its first no-fake train collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think...