Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British heavy bombers, grounded for several days, returned to the punishing round-the-clock schedule at week's end. In a raid unparalleled in its force they beat down the Ruhr's defenses and loosed 2,000 tons of bombs over the rail and water transport center of Dortmund, already heavily damaged in previous raids. With such attacks the weight of bombs dropped on Germany was soaring to astronomical figures: after Dortmund, the R.A.F. figured that its Bomber Command had reached the 100,000-ton mark. German retaliation to the air war was, by comparison, infinitesimal-nuisance raids...
...landed Americans and Britons in North Africa. As General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery advanced across Egypt and Libya, the Royal Navy came jangling along the coast, as if with a ring of keys, unlocking the doors of supply from port to port. Submarines made nuisance bombardments of road and rail along the coast, and naval task forces shelled the retreating troops. Then began the double duty of the Tunisian campaign, until, last week, destroyers skimmed along by Cap Bon, permitting only the slightest leakage of the forlorn refugees from Axis Africa...
...built office buildings, theaters and homes in Addis Ababa. Electrical engineers installed power plants. But Ethiopia is far from modernized. It lacks tractors, plows, harrows to till the rich valleys and lowlands. It lacks trucks to haul wheat, coffee, rubber, cotton into Addis Ababa, to be shipped thence by rail to Djibouti harbor on the Gulf of Aden...
France. Thirty German soldiers were killed, 100 seriously injured when francs-tireurs derailed a Berlin-Paris troop train. Elsewhere in France, ten military trains were wrecked. In Caen all rail connections with the port were cut by well-placed bombs. In Lyon a pitched battle with francs-tireurs cost the Germans 25 casualties. At Annamasse two bombs exploded in a Nazi office building...
...were near Paris if they smoked Melachrinos-at the rail head, Camels...