Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abandoned Osan (where the first U.S. units in Korea began their delaying action last summer). The road from there to Taejon, scene of last summer's most tragic battle, was clogged with refugees. And 50 miles to the east, a flanking threat was developing at Wonju, an important rail and road center which lies in rugged uplands like those around the Changjin reservoir in northeast Korea...
...gave reporters a description of how fast blood can flow across the Pacific. Commander Sproul's consignment, like all the blood used by the services, was collected by the Red Cross from donors all over the nation and shipped to Travis Air Force Base at Fairfield by air, rail and refrigerated truck. Tested and packed in 20 ice-filled plywood boxes, it was piled less than 14 hours later into the cabin of a MATS transport...
...about the business of burning or blowing up barracks, buildings and other installations which the Chinese, whether they arrived in the morning or next week, might find useful. Similar demolitions went on at the same time in other parts of the U.S. perimeter. Withdrawing 3rd Division infantrymen blew their rail and motor bridges behind them. Near Hungnam X Corps engineers blew up another railroad bridge along with almost 400 freight cars and 30 locomotives. They said they definitely weren't going to blow up the new 1950 Japanese cars. At least they had had no orders...
...cheerful view. Day after President Truman's mobilization speech last week, the market started out at a fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore, investors saw more inflation ahead and rushed to buy stocks...
...start of this week, the market moved up at even a faster clip. In the biggest day's trading (4,490,000 shares) since the outbreak of the Korean war, the rail averages hit 76.01, up 2.63 in two days, and their highest point in nearly 20 years. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 231.03, up 6.33 points in two days, thanks chiefly to the scramble to buy oils, metals and aircraft stocks. A spectacular performer: Grumman Aircraft. After a two-for-one split, it soared from 22⅝ to 28¾ in four days...