Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the days of the Revolution, the Communists have made shift with old rail equipment, putting their limited steel into other kinds of capital goods. But Russia made or acquired in Europe nearly 150,000 new freight cars in the last five years, now has about 850,000. Many of Russia's passenger coaches and more than half its locomotives were built before World War I. Most of the rail networks are still single track. About half the rail mileage was destroyed or badly damaged in World War II. Since the war most of the damage has been repaired...
...they can't keep Gundelfinger down, Released again within a year, he became a little more cautious about his material, but has continued to rail against Eli morals, New Deal politics, and academic freedom...
Farther south on the east coast the U.S. Marines had also run into unexpected trouble. A Marine battalion was sent toward Kojo, 30 miles southeast of Wonsan, to defend a rail line threatened...
...east coast the R.O.K. Capitol Division drove into Songjin, a seaport and rail center 75 miles southeast of the Manchurian border, but were stalled a few miles farther north by 2,000 Reds. In the Pujon-Changjin area 10,000 Reds started a drive southeast along the flank of the R.O.K. 3rd Division, headed toward the east coast city of Hamhung, 60 miles north of Wonsan. The Communists were only 30 miles northwest of Hamhung, and threatened to knife in between U.N. forces advancing north of Hamhung and the U.N. base at Wonsan...
Dangling from multi-colored parachutes, 4,100 men and their jeeps, trucks and artillery dropped onto flat, dry rice fields. Within an hour the drops had been completed and Red troops in the drop area driven off. Within another hour the paratroopers had sealed off the two highways and rail lines along which the routed North Koreans had hoped to escape from Pyongyang. Said MacArthur: "It looked perfect to me. It looks like it closed the trap...