Word: railways
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...last week's end the orphaned Raiders had cut the Burma railway between Myitkyina and Katha, controlled the Irrawaddy river in two places, cutting off the Japs who oppose General Stilwell's advance down the Mogaung Valley from their bases...
...late Schaffhausen's citizens rushed to bomb shelters. Thirty-five were killed, 52 wounded. The bomb shower struck the Jezler Silverware and International Watch factories, the electric-power station, post office, town museum, the Swiss end of the border railway station (the German end was untouched), and destroyed the homes of some 250 people. It was only a small raid. Estimates of property damage ran over $10,000,000 (for which the U.S. Government is liable...
While the Wright brothers were still making their fledgling, flights, Inventor Turnbull was building Canada's first wind tunnel. Later he concentrated on aircraft propellers. To test homemade ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...
...Capture of enough undamaged tanks (many of them still loaded on railway cars) to outfit five divisions...
...Avila Camacho took the labor bull by the horns last week, struck at the last vestiges of union control of Mexico's railroads. Management now has power to hire & fire, to disregard all union regulations which "slow up, impede or impair" operation-more power, in fact, than U.S. railway management possesses...