Word: railways
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...TIME, of all publications, succumbed to Korean logic in concocting the war map in its July 31st issue. You will note that it shows a railway leading from Pohang north along the coast through Yongdok. Thereby hangs a tale...
...Japanese laid the bed for a railway, completing numerous tunnels and erecting all the masonry work for the required bridges. Then came 1945, and they moved out. Of course the Koreans intended to complete it, and like the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado, it seemed logical therefore to include it on the maps they made up in honor of the new republic. Furthermore, they even included train schedules for this line in their master timetables. Actually, not a rail has been laid...
This was hardly over before the President got a hatpin-sized jab from a new di rection: the deadpan announcement from the railway unions that they proposed to strike, after he had just been assured that they would not. At his press conference next day, the President seemed to be seething with repressed indignation against the union leaders...
...Called Friend. "At the end of the [Japanese] war, the United States did not ask of China any port, railway or mine concession whatsoever. The American troops simply said goodbye to us and returned to their homes in New York, Texas or wherever they might be. If that should be imperialism, I wish the Soviet Union would follow the example...
Lady for a Day. In Beeston, England, when none of the local girls' mothers would let them take the part, the council selected Dennis Harratt, a 27-year-old railway clerk, to play Lady Godiva (in tights) in the town pageant...