Word: railways
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...train moved up into Minnesota's lake country, through the little cattle towns of North Dakota, through Montana and high up into the Rockies. When the train stopped at Billings, a railway clerk saw a Scottie out for an airing on the platform, read its identification tag. It was the President's Fala. Soon all Montana buzzed with a rumor that Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to a mid-Pacific conference with Joseph Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Wendell Willkie...
...Angeles, the 80-ft. cable railway which had carried hundreds of passengers a day up steep East Bunker Hill ever since 1904 finally came a cropper to priorities on repairs and manpower...
...supplies for the Chinese armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water to Krasnovodsk...
...which was shipped with skilled workers to safety beyond the Urals. River boats and barges, operated entirely by women, had ferried part of the famed Dzerzhinsky tractor plant (now converted to tank manufacture) up the Volga to Kazan, where it was transshipped on flat cars by the Trans-Siberian railway. Other factories still were producing war supplies. Soldiers and workers fighting one battle mingled in the crowded boulevards of the city...
Through the Nazi's solid wall of censorship word seeped last week to London that the strike kept on. And there were stories of sabotage. Fine sand, mixed somehow into lubricating oil, was scarring the bearings of Luxembourg's railroad engines. Railway signals misbehaved; the transport system went awry...