Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather because the recent success of his armies has convinced many doubters that China can be unified by military means-as Chiang the Soldier had argued. In Nanking, both generals and politicians-who have not always agreed in the past-were talking of being able to clear main rail lines south of the Great Wall within three months. The generals had told Chiang they could take Harbin at any time...
...temperament and capacity, knows just when to ask its best. At the first turn, Stymie and Assault were 15 lengths behind the leaders. When Stymie finally let go, Arcaro clucked to Assault. They whizzed by the pacemakers entering the stretch, Stymie on the outside and Assault on the rail. Said Arcaro: "I rapped him three times with the whip, but I guess I didn't have to." At the finish, Assault and Arcaro were six lengths in front...
Signs of Stamina. Ed Martin had come to Philadelphia from the state capital in Harrisburg. During that trip he might have reflected on other signs of Republican stamina-the stone walls and rail fences marking off private property, the small-town centers of muscular little businesses, the web of great railroads, the cities of big and busy mills. True, Pittsburgh, sprawling to the westward, was disorderly, recently strikebound, and Democratic-controlled. But Pittsburgh was neatly fenced off by a gerrymander. In 1943 Ed Martin had signed the gerrymandering bill which had cut down Pittsburgh's Democratic influence...
...rules. You had to be sharp, keep an open mind, and remember that the whole thing was a matter of percentages. You had to get up early and work both sides of the street. You had to keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail. You had to make friends and influence people. You had to know Joe and make with the dough with a hey-nonny-nonny...
...until even later. Volta Redonda's critics claim that the plant is badly placed, that the output will be high-cost. Iron ore must travel south from the rich Minas Geraes deposits over a rickety railroad. Coal comes north from the Santa Catarina mines by an inefficient ship & rail combination...