Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the B-29s switched back to tactical targets, hit the battered Seoul rail yards with 100 tons of bombs, and bombed railroad bridges to the south. There were indications that the North Korean air force, which has been lying low for weeks, might be getting reinforcements from Russia. F-80 Shooting Stars, twice raiding Kimpo airfield near Seoul last week, counted more than a score of La7 and Yak fighters which had not been there a few days before. The Americans shot up nine of the newcomers...
...time came for the first heat of the $15,000 Sportsman's Trot, Verhurst harnessed Proximity to her 36-lb. sulky, turned the rest of the job over to Driver Clint Hodgins, 37, who had flown from Manhattan for the race. At the start, Proximity spurted to the rail slot, was unchallenged until the final stretch turn of the two-lap mile heat. There, the 1948 Hambletonian winner, Demon Hanover, started pressing. Hodgins felt Demon Hanover coming, whipped Proximity hard. She outlasted the bid, won by a head...
...24th captured Yechon, an important rail town on the U.S. right flank, 6 miles northeast of Taejon. Yechon fell after a 16-hour battle that started when the Negro G.I.s moved out under a barrage of mortar and artillery fire in the afternoon. They advanced steadily throughout the night, finally entered the burning town at dawn next...
...Dumbo with ears so big that he could flap them like wings and fly through the air with the greatest of ease. And Germany's sprawling city of greater Wuppertal has long been hooked in on an interurban elevated line whose cars are suspended from a single elevated rail...
...notably television) made little headway. The big demand was for shares of aircraft, oil, steel, railroad, rubber and other industries likely to get war orders. The railroads, which had lagged far behind the peacetime market's climb, chalked up a gain of 5.08 points in the Dow-Jones rail average, closed at 59.46, the highest mark since the big post-election break...