Word: railways
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Bulgaria itself was crawling with Nazi officers in civilian clothes, studying railway facilities, bridges, roads. On these roads there presently blossomed new, brightly painted signs-in German. Nazi General Staff officers, their boots glistening black under their raincoats, suddenly turned up at Sofia's best hotel. Later they stood at the hotel windows and stared at a mob of student patriots who were shouting slogans against Nazi occupation. At Sofia's biggest theatre Nazi diplomats gave a party for Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff and his Cabinet. What the Nazis showed their guests were films of Hitler...
...grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...
...branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force straddled the highway to Tripoli and waited...
...north the Australian pursuit was relentless. R. A. F. bombers made junk of Italian trucks along the way, and Hurricanes mounting eight guns brushed the marching refugee troops with lead. The Italians hurried for Barce, where the northern railway spur from Bengasi ends, but before many troops could entrain and get away, the Australians were right on the Italian behind...
...Southern Railway streamliner, to begin operating this spring from Memphis to Washington, will be steam instead of Diesel drawn between Lynchburg and Bristol, Va. Reason: between those points it will use the right of way of Norfolk & Western, which gets 80% of its freight business from hauling coal and refuses to allow a Diesel on its tracks...