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...Cunningham-alias the "bard of rails." Speak in reverential tones when you speak of the Lackawanna. Write poetry about the Railroads, hate the motor truck and love the Railroads and brother...
Ships Too. As Japan is pushed into her Inner defense citadel, her supply lines become shorter. Navy Under-Secretary Ralph Bard said last fortnight that Japan may even have a shipping surplus now to transport the leavings of her once-great Empire traffic. But not even the shortest supply lines can withstand the loss of about 600 small and large ships which the Empire suffered in September. Most of Japan's losses occurred in the Philip pines, where Mitscher's flyers sank 205 vessels of all sizes, damaged over 200 more...
Said Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard last week, "The enemy's position is not nearly so bad as we would like to believe, for in the Japanese inner citadel they retain great concentrated strength...
...from New York to Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...
Cunningham, the Bard of Rails...