Word: railways
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...Socialists, who had supported the Pleven cabinet on most issues, deserted when the Premier asked the National Assembly to authorize economies designed to reduce the $400 million annual deficit of France's nationalized railway system. That licked the motion-and the government-by a whopping 98 votes...
...provincial railway station, a young street musician and a young actress are instantly and passionately drawn to each other. They spend an ecstatic 24 hours in a grubby Marseille hotel until, her past catching up with her, the girl flees and is killed. The lover has the chance to regain his Eurydice in life by shunning her face till dawn. He looks too soon, but has now the chance-which he embraces-of joining her in death...
...disappointed that you omitted the "e" in Greeneville, Tenn., which reminds me of a porter on the Southern Railway's "Memphis Special," announcing: "Greeneville, Greeneville, the home of Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, the onliest Greeneville with an 'e' in the middle...
...believe there is a railway or a road in Russia on which one could travel at an average of more than 30 miles an hour. Lorries are either very ancient affairs or else ten-wheeled American trucks. There is no heavy road transport, or roads capable of taking it. It is quite clear that the Russian transport system is already strained to bursting point, without the added load of war traffic...
Japanese agents have also spotted the fingers of a fast-lengthening Russian rail and highway system, linking these troop dispositions and reaching toward the North Pacific shore. Partly completed: a northern trunk of the Trans-Siberian railway, from Lake Baikal eastward to the lower Amur River region. Under construction: a highway from the mid-Siberian maneuvering and training center of Yakutsk eastward toward Anadyr, near the tip of Siberia, facing Alaska; a railroad from Nikolaevsk to Kamchatka, circling the Sea of Okhotsk and making Japan's northern water flank in effect a Russian lake...