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...year-so swampy that it could easily swallow up an army." The Chinese side of the Ussuri is heavily forested; timbered hills sweep down to the river swamps for most of its length. Through the forests on the Soviet side runs the easternmost segment of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which links the key Pacific port of Vladivostok with Khabarovsk, more than 400 miles to the north. Beside the railway runs what the Japanese occupiers used to call "the Stalin Highway," a road built in 1938 in imitation of Hitler's Autobahnen...
...Maritime Kray (Region) and the Chinese province of Heilungkiang was fixed by the Treaties of Aigun (1858) and Peking (1860), and in the 100 peaceful years that followed the Russians built up the huge Far Eastern port of Vladivostok and linked it with western Russia via the Trans-Siberian Railway...
This week the Safety Board is investigating a Southern Railway derailment in Laurel, Miss., where 13 tank cars loaded with liquid petroleum gas skipped track and exploded. Ten square blocks of Laurel were set afire and two of the townfolk were killed...
Deadly Stock. Among other near disasters, 15 cars carrying explosives were derailed on Milwaukee's south side. A Sante Fe railway car carrying 750-lb. bombs jumped the tracks near North Avondale, Colo. Fortunately, the bombs did not explode. The 2,300 residents of Chadbourne, N.C., had to leave town when a twelve-car freight carrying ammunition was derailed...
...park was conceived after the Southern Pacific railway company decided to convert much of its Watts right-of-way to industrial usage. The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration joined the act by forming the nonprofit Economic Resources Corporation to acquire additional land and run the park. Headed by an aggressive Negro entrepreneur named Richard Allen, ERC's board includes eight other Los Angeles businessmen, one of them black...