Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Constellation carried Marshall to Tokyo's Haneda airport, where he joined General Matthew B. Ridgway. They took a waiting C-54 and roared off to a forward area landing strip in Korea. Within minutes, eleven light planes had joined it-like rooks gliding in for a fence-rail convention. Almost all the brass in Korea, from the Eighth Army's Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet to commanders of the allied detachments fighting in Korea, had been summoned. In Washington, Dean Acheson said that he didn't know that the Defense Secretary had left town...
...Have Faith" Anderson commands a squadron of the 98th Bomb Group in Korea. His lumbering Super-forts, like their pilots, are almost all veterans of another war. One day last week, Anderson led four Japan-based B-29s toward the rail bridges at Kwaksan. Before they had a chance to release their bombs, 30 MIGs jumped the mission and its cover...
...Reds had won the round; the strike had compelled Arbenz to show his hand. "We consider this a complete victory," said the rail union secretary. "The handwriting was on the wall of the boxcar," said a businessman. "Arbenz will follow Arévalo down the left side of the road...
Guatemala's 6,000 rail workers went out on strike. In all the republic not a boxcar moved; 2,000,000 bananas rotted on the tracks. Passengers stranded as long as 40 hours in strike-halted trains finally had to beg for food in mountain hamlets and hitchhike back into the cities. Cattle died in stock trains marooned on main lines and sidings...
...while I was on the rail, Watching Deitsch (7-2), Tortenson (4-I), and Edge (S-2) working the course, my friend Terror Mike was casing this McKinley nag. Mike says she took the High Jump back in Sheboygan, and that she says she's very limber. But Mike says to me, "Clocker," he says, "Who ever saw a doll who could race...