Word: railways
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...traveler, whatever his mission, who skirts the edge of China or passes through Mao's bamboo curtain. Onto the British-held island and peninsula pour refugees from the Communist Utopia-in-reverse, agents and opportunists playing their own cautious angles; through its postage-stamp airfield and its busy railway station pass most of the diplomats who scuttle to & from Peking; from its shrewd businessmen go goods for Communist buyers; out of its newsstands and radio sets gush reams and hours of words from Mao's propagandists-intended not for Western newsmen but for the 463 million Chinese whose...
...loud demands for a voice in the country's mobilization councils, the United Labor Policy Committee chalked up an important victory. It got the right to name a slate of union officials to serve in defense agencies. According to George McGregor Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and one of the highest paid officials (recently raised to $76,000) in the American labor movement, it was "very hard for labor to find a top man for one of these jobs." But labor managed. It found George M. Harrison...
...Rails & Packing Crates. Lee's men scrounged 2,000 lengths of rail from bombed-out spur lines and abandoned mine railways. From the steel rails the welders fashioned a supply of I beams. The Koreans went out into the hills, returned with 1,500 bags of cement hidden there by the Japanese almost six years before. For forms, they used old packing crates from Tandy's supply dump. For cribbing, the Koreans borrowed thousands of railroad ties from the Andong-Taegu railway line, returned them promptly when they were through with them...
...plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists in Korea...
...Lindfors gives a performance that puts Hollywood to shame for having wasted her talent in humdrum roles. But none of the well-cast principals can outshine a large group of minor actors playing returning prisoners of war and their families in a long emotional sequence of reunion at a railway station...