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Meanwhile his flair for finding out what was going on led him to the conclusion that the Kolchak regime, which the western Allies were then supporting, had no backing from the Russian people. Largely because of his finding, the Graves force was limited to guarding the railway, avoided a political blunder. A grateful War Department pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Eichelberger's high-collared blouse...
...Koreans a new era had begun. Russian marines patrolled Seoul, Korea's capital. Elsewhere in the Land of Morning Calm, Red Army paratroopers and truck-borne infantry had taken over airfields, harbors, railway junctions. Moscow reported that the Red flag waved in Korean towns, that Korean crowds were wildly cheering their liberators, that self-government committees were operating, and that a purge of collaborationists had begun...
...South Manchurian, both built by Russia. (Stalin remarked to Soong: "We haven't had much use of them." Soong's reply: "That wasn't our fault; we didn't guarantee you against the Japs.") Russian soldiers may not use the railroads except to fight Japan. Railway guards will be exclusively Chinese...
...soon will China have internal stability? What industry will be left intact? (Can the steel mills and railway shops of Manchuria be operated immediately? How long will it take to harness the textile factories of coastal China, with their 5,000,000 spindles compared to the 300,000 in the hinterland?) How much aid-in technical advice, credits and materials-will come from...
Fourth Best. What Robert Young had got from the Van Sweringens was: 1) the profit-fat Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; 2) through the Alleghany Corp., the controlling interest in three other roads which sprawl across the U.S. heartland-the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate), the Pere Marquette, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie (see map). Last week, in Cleveland's Terminal Tower, the C & O's board of directors voted to merge all four railroads, make them one operating company...