Word: railways
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...White Russian refugee, Huene lived in the Paris of the '20s. He was a movie extra, teashop waiter, once went to Poland as a railway-tie inspector for the Belgian Government. In Paris he finally took up his profession, working for Vogue. He speedily established himself as a master of deluxe and diaphanous effects. He moved to the U.S. in 1935, when he began photographing for Harper's Bazaar...
...Lightning. The great sweep westward brought rich rewards. One of them was the final victory in the battle for the railroads. When the Red Army captured Zhitomir, it severed the Wehrmacht's last north-to-south railway in pre-1939 Russia, compelled the Germans to use the single-track line 100 miles to the west, in pre-1939 Poland. This defeat virtually split apart Germany's southern and central armies, will hamper the shifting of reserves from sector to sector to meet Russian attacks. Main attacks...
...Roosevelt in 1936 and 417,000 in 1940, he knows the business on a small scale. He has a rich field to work in: besides C.I.O.'s 5,285,000 members, he can try to harvest votes from A.F. of L.'s 6,100,000, the Railway Brotherhoods' 350,000, the uncounted thousands of sympathetic farmers, white-collar workers and little businessmen...
...Transportation, was president of the U.S. Lines. Major General William H. Harrison, Deputy Chief Signal Officer, was engineering vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Brigadier General Carl R. Gray Jr., Director General of the North African military railroads, was executive vice president of Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway...
...Said the London Midland & Scottish Railway, which had just barred its train platform at Preston, Lancashire, to all except passengers: "The station has been used by young girls to pick up men. They have made an absolute nuisance of themselves...