Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That same day, in Hong Kong, 83 Shanghailanders (including four U.S. citizens) walked down the gangplank of a Danish freighter and onto British soil. The travelers had gone by rail from Shanghai 700 miles north to Tientsin and thence 900 miles south to Hong Kong by ship. Their report on Communist Shanghai described a slowly dying city...
...bull-necked French captain stood at the rail of his U.S. made LCI moored up the Mekong river 70 miles from Saigon. Along the marshy jungle bank moved a column of tough, tired fighters-Foreign Legionnaires, Senegalese, Algerians, a few French-back from a day's action by naval-ground-&-air forces against the elusive Viet Minh (Communist-led) guerrillas. Two of the legionnaires had been wounded by a booby trap. Behind them, over banyan and bamboo groves, rose the smoke of a straw-hut village they had put to the torch. With them the legionnaires brought a small...
...cars to Equitable, or rent them for another ten years at 20? a day. "We think," said Carry, "that the railroads will see that it will cost less to rent modern cars than to repair and maintain aged ones." At week's end Champ Carry, who calls most rail presidents by their first names, was ready to sign up his first major railroad under Equitable's plan...
...there stands a gingerbread jumble of 100 buildings which form a city in themselves. They cover an area larger (72 city blocks) than Chicago's Loop, contain a spic & span power plant big enough to serve a city the size of Dallas, and are surrounded with as much rail trackage as Indianapolis. Each year, the buildings consume 3,522,980,000 gallons of water, 4,500,000 bushels of malted barley and the entire output (192,000 tons) of a nearby coal mine. Over them all hangs the sick-sweet smell of malt and hops. The name...
...back and applauded last week as the truckers got a roundhouse swing from a not-so-neutral corner. Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Vice President Andrew H. Phelps called the truckers' use of public highways "transportation by taxation," warned that truck lines "can ruin but not replace rail service." From now on, said Phelps, Westinghouse, which spends $40 million a year on transportation, will always ship by rail except when the truckers offer bargains in rates which the rails decline to meet. One probable reason for the announcement: Westinghouse makes locomotive generators, controls and switching equipment, owns the largest...