Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West of Shavh, a rail-junction town in northern Lithuania, Red Army guns thundered. By the Berlin radio's account, the Russians "launched a new offensive with armored and battle formations after subjecting the main German defense line to a drumfire barrage of heaviest caliber." Berlin added that the penetrations achieved were "temporary...
...days, Marshal Govorov's army group had killed 30,000 Germans, captured 15,000 more. When Govorov seized Ainazi, on the Latvian coast, the Germans lost their only rail-served port north of Riga. For two months they had stubbornly clung to an escape corridor at the bottom of the gulf-yet, when the Russians captured the inland rail town of Cesis, they found it had been reinforced by Elite Guard and aviation cadet units from Germany...
...cheering throngs along the shore. The ugly hulk was the 600-ft. ore freighter George M. Humphrey, rusty red from 15 months under water. Her pilothouse had been crushed and her funnel twisted by the winter ice; the ripping current had torn off layers of paint, left her rail in tatters and smashed in the bulkheads. But to all of Sturgeon Bay (pop. 5,439) and especially to stocky, blue-eyed Captain John Roen, she was as worthy of a rousing welcome as any transatlantic superliner. For the arrival of the Humphrey in port marked the end of the biggest...
...Wert , Capa and I live at Lancaster - Mary Welsh is at the Ritz - others are bivouacking at the Grand Hotel. But we all get together at the Hotel Scribe, and almost any morning you can see Wert, Capa, Walton, Welsh and Landry lined up at the rail of the balcony planning the day's operations...
...every security sales manager wanted a whack at the bonds. Choice rail-bond merchandise has been scarce in the war years. Further, the ore, wheat and lumber-carrying Great Northern has come a long way financially since the late '305. Then analysts seriously questioned its ability to pay a $100 million debt...