Word: railways
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...raid was expensive: Twenty-five bombers were lost, mostly over Gelsenkirchen. Apparently the Germans were no longer able to defend more than one city at a time. To the Heart. R.A.F. bombers struck in force at Nuremberg, shrine of the Nazi party. Two large diesel-engine factories, two trunk railway junctions and other targets felt the weight of more than 1,500 tons of bombs, including thousands of incendiaries. Returning pilots reported the Germans using Dornier-217 bombers as night fighters, indicating the Nazi shortage of fighter aircraft. Pesky Mosquito bombers flying at 400 m.p.h. gave Berlin its 68th...
...Above all, Rome, as a center of Italian rail communications, forms an integral link between northern and southern Italy. It was to interrupt this vital line of supplies for Axis armies in the south that U.S. bombers twice blasted Rome's most important railway centers, the San Lorenzo and Littorio yards...
...long train of coaches stood in the multitracked railway yard of a staging area. Down the road came the troops, sweat glinting under their helmets, their eyes straight ahead. They had a band. When the colored contingents slapped along, the band broke into jive. The men jigged, some of them; some grinned. But nobody, black or white, laughed aloud or wisecracked...
Sixth Avenue merchants rekindled their prewar dreams that started when the old rattletrap elevated railway was torn down, and plans were drawn for a broad treelined boulevard, to be called the "Avenue of the Americas," designed to outswank swanky Fifth Avenue...
...likes railways of the more infrequent kind. He is an authority on Waiting Room Tea, and prefers the Southern Railway's recipe to that of the Great Western. He has perfected a method of traveling which precludes all trains of more than one coach and involves a large number of single tickets...