Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backlog of packages that has piled up since the rail strike began last week will be cleared Monday, the Harvard Square Post Office announced last night. The local station received permission to accept and send parcel post shipments yesterday...
...clear that the country cannot tolerate a nation-wide paralysis like this. Not only did it prevent railroad men from working, but many industries dependent on supply by rail had to lay off workers and shut down. At a time when the nation is fighting a war and striving to build up essential industries, a railroad strike represents a major catastrophe. As Wilson put it, Communist saboteurs could not have been more effective...
...fast as five inches an hour. Instead of improving the trails and slalom courses, it caused one of the worst series of avalanches in Alpine history. Tons of thick wet snow crashed down on the valleys of eastern and central Switzerland. Roads were blocked, including the St. Gotthard rail line between Italy and central Europe. Swiss army detachments futilely tried to break up the giant snowslides with mortar barrages...
...embraced Mencken and Nathan and yelled: "So you guys are critics, are you? Well, let me tell you something. I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country . . ." Next day, after reading the proofs of Main Street, Mencken wrote to Nathan: "Grab hold of the bar-rail, steady yourself, and prepare for a terrible shock . . . That lump . . . by God, he has done the job . . . There is no justice in the world...
...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...