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Road Fed & Ice Free. The heartland is a 500-mile-long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable because-in Alaska's trackless central land mass-it is stitched together by year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...
...with no intervening "cataract space") rediscovered; not until the 18th Century was a whole defective lens removed. Over the centuries, Dr. Kirby found, the number of instruments invented for the removal of cataracts (e.g., a glass tube and a hollow needle to withdraw the cataract by suction; a metal loop to flip it out) rivaled the number of operations performed...
...hard to take this as anything more than a tough old soldier's morale-stiffening bracer for worse ordeals yet to come. At the time Walker spoke, the line was a sprawling 200-mile loop with the Reds a long way from Pusan on the east coast, too close for comfort on the south. Walker just did not have enough men to stand fast on such a line. On flat terrain a division is normally expected to hold no more than six miles of front; in rugged Korea, where routes of advance are channeled, a division might protect...
...drenching rain flooded the paved depression where State Street dips under a bridge out on the sprawling South Side. It forced a trucker named Mel Wilson to drive slowly as he hauled 8,000 gallons of gasoline into the city in a heavy truck & trailer rig. It kept Loop crowds huddled in doorways until just before Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7078 came by. Then the rain ended, and No. 7078-one of a speedy new type which Chicagoans call "Green" Hornets"-was quickly jammed...
...Wilson's gasoline truck rumbled north toward the Loop and the crowded streetcar clanged south on State Street almost as if they were guided by an evil hand. Both got to a rail turnoff near 63rd Street at the same instant. A flagman waved a warning at the streetcar-a switch had been opened to detour trolley traffic around the flooded pavement ahead. But No. 7078 did not stop...