Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive front 1,200 to 1,600 miles from main production centers. The Germans had run into that problem, at about the same distances, in their disastrous effort to take Stalingrad. Before a prolonged offensive could be built up, it had been necessary for the Russians to build up rail transport in battle-ravaged eastern Poland. Winter had come late...
...except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically, the Ethiopian Government could now choose foreign advisers "wherever it wishes." Presumably this referred to the U.S., which has sent missions to Addis Ababa...
...last week traders watched Louisville & Nashville Railroad common soar 7¾ points, close at $110-up $40 from its 1944 low. Two days later L. & N. directors decided to split the $100 par value blue chip stock two shares for one, the first major split in a rail stock since that...
Surprisingly, the rush of buying was started again by the rail stocks, though most of the roads chugged past their profit peaks months ago. But at the prospect of heavy war traffic for most of 1945, the Johnny-come-latelies thought there was still time to climb aboard. Even such second-graders as Illinois Central helped lead the rush that put the rails at their peak since...
...points in only 20 innings. Once he had found himself, even the lingering aftereffects of amoebic dysentery, picked up on a Central American tour, could not keep him from making the most difficult of shots-such as a six-cushion carom with the object balls frozen on the rail...