Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weak and exhausted after nine days jammed in open gondola cars, U.N. prisoners were herded off a prison train, 30 at a time, in Sunchon tunnel on Oct. 20, 1950. Communist soldiers escorted them down the,tracks, told them to hide in an erosion ditch while they waited for food. As soon as the prisoners had relaxed on the ground, the guards opened point-blank fire with burp guns and rifles. U.S. deaths: at least...
Rubble Lift. Under Brauer's direction, three narrow-gauge railroads were driven into Hamburg's ruins to cart out the rubble; at the peak one train ran every ten minutes, loaded with 4,000 tons of scrap steel and mortar. Hamburg rebuilt faster than any other city in Germany: 130.000 homes. 52 schools, enough new jobs to employ 65,000 more workers than prewar. Shipping shot back to 70% of normal, production rose 6% over 1936. Back to its prewar population of 1,600,000, Hamburg once more became West Germany's biggest city...
...Princeton students are kept from wholesale migrations to the more lenient suppliers of, say, Kingston by a college car ban. Only graduate students, married students and special hardship cases can receive permission to break the rule. So, the Princeton men either stay at home--thirsty--or travel by train to girls' colleges where there is refreshment and company...
...They decided to suspend their talks-but not to end them. Actually, their many original disagreements had been narrowed to two: ¶ Egypt's demand that the 4,000 British technicians (slated to stay on for 5½ years after 80,000 British troops leave, in order to train Egyptian replacements) wear civvies; Britain insists that they stay in uniform...
...stand for). It now includes between 4.000 and 5,000 professional people, students and workers, he says, and it is well organized in cells throughout the republic in all six provinces. Local cells control secret armed combat units, and he himself moves about the country helping to organize and train them. (The day before, I learned later, he had been in western Pinar del Rio.) I asked whether these units could stand off the army. "Do not believe the army is with Batista," he said. "It is run now by a handful of Batista officers...