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...Railroads are the big exception to the profits drop. Long the most overtaxed U.S. business, railroaders are now protected from the excess-profits levies by the very rail & ballast that has kept their profits down for years. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe-longest U.S. railroad-earned $16,775,000 in the five months ended last May, more than three times a year ago; Atlantic Coast Line netted $8,938,000 in the same five months, almost double 1941; Union Pacific boosted profits from...
...Many Lend-Lease ships which heretofore returned from Britain with Scotch whiskey are now returning with chalk as ballast. Reason: British stocks of Scotch are running low. Consequence: the U.S. supply of Scotch (now sufficient for about six months) will also begin to decline rapidly...
...United Fruit Co., lately a $1-a-year man in the Maritime Commission. Robson's job will be to use every inch of ship space to best effect, see that never again does a ship sail-as one carrying a fleet of Army trucks did recently-with ballast where cargo could have been piled...
...food that goes to Hawaii will probably not only feed the populace, but also afford a chance to save the factors' crops. The ships that carry supplies to the Islands may well take back sugar or pineapples instead of returning in ballast...
...supernumeraries in this novel include a 300-year-old tree trunk which shatters transcontinental telephone connections, an owl whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions...