Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 900 freight cars would be required to transport this tonnage by rail. It compares with 13,000 tons dropped by the R.A.F. in the 52 weeks of 1940, with 7,500 tons dropped by the Germans in the entire London blitz...
...south, another powerful force captured the key rail center of Zhmerinka, fought its way into the famed hedgehog of Vinnitsa. By forced day-&-night marches, Zhukov's mobile units caught up with the fleeing Germans, crossed the upper Bug over bridges the Germans had had no time to blow...
This was no surprise to Mt. Vernon's new boss, Thomas Mellon Evans.* Tom Evans, just turned 33, slick-haired, aggressive, plunked himself into the president's chair a fortnight ago and calmly announced that he was out to carve himself a rich slice of the rail car business. He did not seem to care if it came right out of the venerable Big Four-Pullman, American Car, General American and Pressed Steel. His $3,000,000 order from the Southern Railway for 1,000 freight cars was proof he meant business...
...yearly on the deal, although "it had no financial resources and only the most meager experience and talent." Typical result: although the magnesium-bearing ore was over 200 miles distant, the plant was so poorly located that ore had to be shipped by rail some 950 miles to reach it. Cost of the plant rocketed from $70,000,000 to $133,000,000 ($1.81 per lb. of magnesium capacity...
...dive . . . was taking considerable water aboard. She stopped several times and members of the crew could be seen manning hand pumps. . . . Once when under way . . . it appeared that the lighter was going to overturn . . . the coxswain had left the pilot house and was steering the vessel from the rail" (obviously preparing for a quick getaway if she foundered...