Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incredibly, among Red China's teeming millions-a manpower shortage developed. Stevedores were shifted from the ports to the paddies, and unloaded ships piled up in the harbors. Railroad workers were rushed to the docks, and train schedules became chaotic. Office workers went to the farms, and commerce staggered. Instead of performing military duties, soldiers were put to work digging ditches and raising pigs. Even the wives and children of army officers and enlisted men hoed cabbages and spread fertilizer...
Grand Chef de Train Grand Voiture du Rhode Island W. Warwick...
Underground Welcome. Khrushchev was out at 7:47 a.m. to lead his party aboard the train to Manhattan. There, on a brisk, clear day among the skyscrapers, the tour began to lose its jovial bounciness. As a safety precaution, he got the official greeting in the dirty, cavenious incoming baggage room at Pennsylvania Station. For the next 45 hours, his hosts seemed to spend most of their energy trying to protect him from harm...
...series of hectic interviews, as he strolled down the aisle of his special train, Khrushchev...
Exulting in what he chose to call his liberation from "house arrest" of security, the Russian Premier got off the train carrying him from Los Angeles at nearly every stop and mingled with tightly packed station crowds...