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Several thousand Soviet-directed railway police yielded control of west Berlin railway stations to west Berlin police last night on order of the United States, Britain, and France. Russia protected the three-power action, which came on the fourth day of a fierce strike against the Soviet-controlled railway and elevated systems...
...orange paint, fan ventilators and padded seats; but underneath is the outmoded hulk of a 1926 transit car model. In general, that's what is wrong with the entire MTA set-up--it is only a veneer, covering up but not eliminating the financial structure of the Boston Elevated Railway Company that it replaced...
...election." Jubilant Conservative politicians flatly predicted a Conservative victory at the national polls next year. Nevertheless, both sides realized that less than two-fifths of Britain's electorate had voted, that local contests do not necessarily forecast the country's attitude in a national election. Said a railway worker in Streatham: "Yer can't judge by local elections. They vote against you if they don't like yer face...
South of the city, the Communist vanguard surged on to a point halfway between Shanghai and the refugee Nationalist capital of Canton. More than 350 miles of the Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
...usual for the women to be collected in cellars or other safe places. When the numbers were sufficient they were either marched or taken by lorry to a railway center...