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Thirty stories above the street, the world's largest clock told the time. In the huge, marbled lobbies of South America's tallest and finest railway station, loudspeakers poured out sambas. But the Government-operated Central do Brasil's new Dom Pedro II Station in Rio was incomplete behind its majestic façade. Train sheds had still to be roofed. At rush hour 150,000 commuters and fellow travelers jammed narrow platforms, were squirted on & off trains like toothpaste. The grandeur of Dom Pedro II Station could not mask the rickety state of Brazil...
Along a battered railway in North Shansi, where the year's last tasseled kaoliang still stands unreaped, the biggest, bloodiest battle in a year of China's civil war has just ended. A Government army, rolling to the relief of Tatung, effected a junction with a column from the long-besieged city...
Railroad workers struck first, tying up every railway in the zone. They demanded 100% wage increases and "labor reforms" along lines said to be in effect in Russia's zone. Next the Communists threatened a strike of all public utilities, including power plants. Knowing that southern Korea has no rice reserves, they demanded that the U.S. authorities release "hoarded stores" for distribution among workers. They also spread rumors that the U.S. authorities had confiscated all rice for shipment to Japan...
Almost three centuries later, after a railway from Laredo, 160 miles north in Texas, had reached and roused the sleepy town, a brewery started in Monterrey, using the sparkling water to make the beer that most Mexicans now drink, many Americans import, and some connoisseurs call the world's finest...
President Perón was as pleased as the British, particularly over the third point. In an exuberant speech following the ceremonies he promised that he himself would nail the first Argentine shield on a railway coach. Said he: "Interested critics may say what they like, but the fact remains that the [U.S.-owned] telephone network is now Argentine property, and the same is true of the railways." By the end of his six-year term, he boasted, "not an inch of soil, not a breath of air" in Argentina would be alien-owned. And in fact little more than...