Word: railways
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...calmly announced that he was out to carve himself a rich slice of the rail car business. He did not seem to care if it came right out of the venerable Big Four-Pullman, American Car, General American and Pressed Steel. His $3,000,000 order from the Southern Railway for 1,000 freight cars was proof he meant business...
...Captured a dozen major cities, lifted the siege of Leningrad (last week freight began to shuttle between Moscow and Leningrad over a direct railway...
...Allies held Salerno, but they also had on their hands the King and Marshal Badoglio. The Italian fleet came over. Militarily the Allies gained some advantage by having Italian troops help out as dock workers, as railway and bridge guards. But the Allied command miscalculated when it expected the Italian armies -beaten, demoralized and wanting only to go home to their families-to be useful as combat troops. They, like the people of Italy, wanted only peace and food...
...more be evaded by the United States than it could be by their prototype, the Roman republic. [The U.S. and Russia] are among the largest and strongest . . . civilized powers . . . and both are growing larger and stronger while the other powers of Christendom are falling into decay. Build (a) railway between them, and America-and Russia may join hands against the rest of the world on any issue...
Cosmopolitan Railway. Arguing that sea power would decline as railroads grew, Gilpin proposed to join the peoples of the Isothermic Zodiac, minimize wars and "transcend the disharmony of world geoggraphy" by means of a globe-girdling "Cosmopolitan Railway." It would run through the three continents, cross the Bering Strait by car ferry...