Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graver rumblings of danger came this week from central China: four strong Japanese columns had plunged southward, towards the thrice-captured, thrice-abandoned ruins of Changsha. Tokyo's aim was the last missing links in the great rail line from Korea to the South China Seas...
...Allies had complete naval supremacy, which enabled them to bring in the thousands of tons of supplies which any day's battle requires. They had air supremacy too. Major General John ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, tactical air commander in Italy, boasted that his planes had knocked out rail communication so completely that no through trains had moved from the Po Valley to the Gustav line since March 24; the Germans had to rely on truck transport, chiefly at night, over Highway No. 7 -the Via Appia-and Highway No. 6-Via Casilina...
Three days after the battle's beginning, picked U.S. bombardiers blew a 4O-ft. hole in the Avisio rail viaduct on the Brenner Pass line. Presumably the 75 daily trainloads of supplies which the Nazis had been sending into Italy over this key route would be stopped, at least temporarily...
...Seized almost all of the roadbed which in a few months would link Tokyo by rail and ferry with Hankow in middle China...
...Heard Alabama's cotton-conscious Bankhead rail against the menace of rayon ("We can't let 3,000,000 families in the South face starvation"). ¶ Decided to decline, with regret, an invitation to Congressmen to visit the British Parliament. Foreign Relations Chairman Tom Connally said he would ask for a "rain check...