Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travel was perilous. General de Gaulle and fellow travelers (among them: Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin) chafed, killed time at the Azerbaijan Opera House, then caught a train for Stalingrad. There the General watched steel pour from the furnaces of the Red October Metal Plant (now restored to 60% of former production), tractors roll from the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Works. General de Gaulle presented the "Homage of France" and the bronze plaque in memory of Stalingrad's defense to the city...
...strike began at Dayton and spread with powder-train swiftness across Ohio's great industrial areas, the bewildered U.S. public wondered what had come over their Nell. The affairs of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers, affiliated with neither C.I.O. nor A.F. of L., had been so calm that millions did not know the union existed. But the Dayton local, like many others, had been quietly tapping its foot for months over an "emergency"' company practice. To lure operators to war-production centers, the company had offered an $18.25-a-week expense bonus to any transferring from smaller...
...said that it would not recommend a change in the Little Steel formula. In the end, only Franklin Roosevelt can change it, since the formula is part of a presidential directive. But union labor, having helped re-elect Franklin Roosevelt just three weeks ago, is as yet unwilling to train its oratorical guns on him. At the C.I.O. convention, Phil Murray concentrated on lesser fry, primarily WLBster George Taylor, who devised Little Steel. Said Murray: "We have been aware of your machinations." Mend your ways or "resign your...
Apparently Americans would also continue to train Chinese troops for the coming battles. In Yunnan province thousands of Chinese have already passed through bases like "Little Fort Benning," grown husky and active on good food, learned modern communications and tactics from U.S. instructors...
Between Life & Death. In the middle of November 1939, Jan Karski, then a 25-year-old Polish lieutenant, made his way into Warsaw. A student before the war, cheerful, optimistic, he had escaped from a train bound for a German work camp. A weird, funereal light lay over the city and suburbs. The mind of Poland had been shaken by disaster, and in a twilight of reason, people moved half automatically, midway between life & death. They stalked along the roads sightlessly, as if hypnotized; they held themselves stiffly, as if all their will power was needed to keep them from...