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...Trunk contains plenty more: lush late '703 settings of exotic Old New Orleans and gaudy, naughty Saratoga. There is even a spectacular railway wreck and a skull-crushing pitched battle in the dark. Most surprising thing about Saratoga Trunk is that it is not in Technicolor. Also surprising: despite its tried-&-true formula and two-hour-plus running time, Saratoga Trunk is a glamorous double portion of consistently entertaining entertainment...
...First John Lewis thrust his bulky frame into the all-important executive committee. In league with the A.F. of L., he had the committee enlarged to 16 members, eight from industry, three from the C.I.O., three from the A.F. of L., one from the Mine Workers, one from the Railway Brotherhoods...
Nationalist soldiers, open the railway which feeds coal from the northern coalfields to resurgent Shanghai. He made his headquarters in sprawling, ugly Tientsin...
Socialism invaded the Empire. Mustached, square-shouldered Frederick John Burrows, onetime railway porter, World War I sergeant major and 1942-44 president of Britain's railwaymen, was appointed Governor of Bengal. Burrows' sal ary jumps from $832 as a railway checker to $36,000 a year, and up to $176,040 in allowances. He leaves his six-room Herefordshire cottage for a palace in Calcutta. He and his wife took the news in stride. Said Dora Beatrice Burrows: "We shan't be any different. We are working people and always will...
...strategic Shantung peninsula, communications were paralyzed. There the Communists held the important harbor of Chefoo. But the more important harbor of Tsingtao was occupied by U.S. marines, under able Major General Keller E. Rockey. In the hinterland Central Government provincial troops struggled with Communists astride the main railway running "south from Tientsin through Tsinan, Shantung's capital...