Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life was hard and gritty. Nevertheless, he traveled, met the famous, became well-tailored, suave and bald, and shortened his name to the more fashionable C. Blevins Davis. In 1946, at the age of 45, he married an aging heiress named Marguerite Sawyer Hill, a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon (Great Northern) James J. Hill. When she died in 1948, C. Blevins inherited...
...again in Korea, they will probably not be satisfied with another "human sea" offensive, the last two of which failed so miserably. In the past month, the pace of their buildup, which has been going on all summer, has increased, in spite of allied air attacks on their bridges, rail lines and road transport. They now have 500 or more tanks -more than the North Koreans had at the start of the war - and 1,000-plus planes, some of them bought by "popular subscription" (i.e., forced collection) among Red China's people. In Korea, they are making strenuous...
...fleet of Matt Ridgway's B-29 bombers, escorted by Navy jets from off-shore carriers, bored into extreme northeastern Korea one day last week and dropped 300 tons on the important communications town of Rashin, which lies on the rail line from Manchuria's Harbin down Korea's east coast. The bombers smashed warehouses, a locomotive repair shop, a marshaling yard. There was no flak and no enemy interception. It would have been a routine raid if it were not for Rashin's peculiar history...
Restricted Diet. In Baltimore, police arrested James Corn, 38, for climbing inside the cage rail at the local zoo, loading up on the peanuts people threw to the bears...
...dock, was busy day & night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal: goods must be long-hauled by rail 2,000 miles to the north. But to unload farther north on China's coast, ships must...