Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had tumbled out in the dawn at a cry from the ship's rail: "There's the Old Lady, fellas. There's the Old Lady. . . ." As the Statue of Liberty took shape through the mist, they yelled and banged fists on other men's shoulders. But they were quiet as the ship docked. On the pier they reached out like children to touch the Gray Ladies who served them food-American women...
...pushed sales up to more than 2,000,000 shares. In one wild last hour's trading, 800,000 shares changed hands. Twice the high speed ticker fell behind. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial averages soared to 156.68, highest since the war-begotten boomlet of September 1939. The rail averages kept pace with them. At 51.35, railroad stocks were at their peak since 1937, when the last big bull market fell on its face...
...there were other tasks that might have been tackled back of the 50-mile sector through which Rundstedt struck. There bridges were intact, roads were unharmed. A rail line operated from the Rhine nearly to the Allied line opposite Trier...
...Principle 2 Vandenberg could report: all rail bridges on lines leading to the bulge were down and were being kept down by repeated attacks. Only one main bridge still stood in the Belgian salient. Back of it the bombers had created a bridgeless arc extending from Cologne to the Moselle River. The.German railheads were pushed steadily back by continued attack. But the bridges over the Rhine were left standing. "Ike" Eisenhower apparently still believed that the Germans would commit all they had to a battle west of the Rhine (TIME...
...first seven flying days Allied heavies and mediums poured nearly 35,000 tons of bombs on German supply centers, pummeling the foe's rail and road junctions close to the front, pocking his airfields...