Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Glover, once a switchman himself, could still read a red signal when he saw it. Within nine hours, he called an end to the strike on the Great Northern, the Chicago Great Western, the Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Western Pacific...
Guiding Hand. The South Korean army made a valiant effort to overcome its initial confusion. Within 24 hours after the invasion's start, the Southerners had succeeded in halting temporarily the most dangerous Northern drive, even managed to counterattack across the border and captured the Northern town of Haeju...
...Russia withdrew their troops. Both proceeded to train local armies. The Communist army in the north was known to be at least 95,000 strong to be equipped with heavy artillery, tanks and planes. The U.S.-trained army in the south, numerically about equal to the Northern force, had lately begun to look good to its U.S. advisers (TIME, June 5). But it had virtually no military planes or tanks. Presumably somebody had thought that none would be needed...
...four years. When the New York Stock Exchange opened, the day after the Korean fighting started, a huge wave of panicky selling began. By day's end, trading totaled 3,910,000 shares, the heaviest since May 21, 1940, when Hitler's Panzer divisions were sweeping through northern France. The selling sent the Dow-Jones industrial average tumbling 10.41 points, the biggest single day's break since the September crash...
Sofia Rilke was annoyed. Had not the daughter of an Imperial Councillor, the wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided to raise her son as a daughter, anyway. She put up his hair in braids, kept him in pretty frocks and dainty underwear, set him to playing with dolls and little girls, and called him "Sophie...