Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration had wobbled its way through one crisis: the railroads. Away from the Army, back to industry went management of the roads, after 22 days of Government operation. The seven top rail executives who had donned Army colonels' uniforms took them off again, put them away in closets, to be taken out only for parades and grandchildren. For three weeks' active duty, they were entitled to about $360 in Army pay (besides their regular salaries). But most of them had spent $250 or more on well-tailored uniforms. The workers fared better. The 15 big non-operating unions...
...teacher. Originally a Pensacola-trained Navy flyer, he resigned his commission to join the A.V.G. Flying Tigers in China under Major General Claire Chennault. He found good cornpany there, became a squadron leader in six months, shot down six Japs. When his China term was up, he came home rail-thin from dengue fever, took three months' leave, then went back to war, this time with the Army Air Forces...
...million of debt. Thus, by 1945 the backbreaking funded debt of $11.9 billion in 1930 will have been cut, through reorganizations and debt retirement, to $5.9 billion. Even if Congress refuses to adopt the ICC conversion plan, only a catastrophic depression year, far worse than 1932, could drive rail earnings under the $250 million needed to service this new streamlined debt...
...Blow That Failed. The Partisans had a hard week. Tito threw a unit of his fighters, scantily equipped with captured Nazi and Italian tanks and artillery, against Banja Luka-a rail terminus, communications center, headquarters of the Second Tank Army. After three days of fighting Tito reported that the Partisans had taken half the town, were moving through it block by block. Then the Germans rushed tanks and reinforcements from the northeast. Short of munitions, the Partisans had to pull...
...week's end the victors had pushed two miles above Ortona, were ten miles below Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular rail-and-highway to Rome. Theirs had been the most notable gain in another week of hill-by-hill advance up the Italian boot. Through dead Ortona, the Canadians trudged after the retreating, fighting Germans...