Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faces of the men lining the transport's rail showed little emotion. They puffed cigarettes and stared at shoreside railroad cars loaded with jeeps, at fireboats squirting a welcome. There was no mood of wild celebration. "We figure we'll have to go back there," said Pfc. George Miller, of Brooklyn. All Corporal Raymond Herren wanted was to get back to Alton, Ill. and see his wife and kids. "The boy, Paul, I've never seen," remarked Herren. "He was born in October. You miss things besides drinking and helling around. You just want to see green...
...four sections (Home, Foreign, American and Business World), and supplied one or more articles for each issue. His research and writing included, among other things, reports on the Malayan rubber supply, the British electoral system, the Argentine-induced meat shortage, and the troubles of the Long Island Rail Road. He did a "leader" on the money fight between the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve...
Last week Tonkin's uneasy quiet was broken by the urgent growl of American bulldozers and cement-mixers. De Lattre, in furious haste, was replacing the Beau Geste forts on his northern front with modern concrete bunkers. His main concern: protection of the vital 60-mile road and rail link between Hanoi and the supply port of Haiphong...
...oddly bright spot in the whole sorry affair was the fact that the ill-famed Long Island Rail Road, generally on the receiving end of commuters' brickbats because of its erratic operation, kept running steadily all through the strike...
...casualty figures were still mounting. There were 84 dead so far, 400 injured in the nation's worst railroad wreck since 115 were killed at Nashville in 1918. For New York commuters, it was the third big wreck in twelve months-32 were killed in a Long Island Rail Road smashup at Rockville Centre last February, 79 in another L.I.R.R. wreck at Richmond Hill.* For the Pennsylvania, it was the second major crash in five months; in September, the Spirit of St. Louis rammed into a stalled troop train near Coshocton, Ohio and killed 33 soldiers...