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Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
Last week, ex-G.I. Hudson shipped his first boxcar of tomatoes to the New York market. Before the harvest is over, he expects to ship another 59 boxcars of produce. He expects farmers to make from $300 to $600 an acre, to make enough for himself to live reasonably well, and to pay off his father-in-law. His idea has caught on so well that next year he plans to plant 800 acres. His newest dream: locally financed valley canneries to handle some of the new crops...
...sings it in the picture, and who last winter sent The Trolley Song down the track to success, says that friends are calling her "Miss Transportation of 1945." Song Writer Mercer, explaining that he dashed off the lyrics in an hour, says: "I saw the name on a boxcar once - thought it had a nice, lyrical quality...
...looked almost hopeless, but ODT and the railroads were not just sitting around in tears. Last week, Defense Plant Corp. was prevailed upon to finance the building of 1,200 more troop sleepers and 400 boxcar kitchens-double the number now in use. If steel is available-and this was a big if-the new cars should be ready in the fall. But they may not be ready in time for this year's transportation crisis...
...beeline back to Mindoro, gassed up and had his plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated ack-ack resulted in two misses, two direct hits. But the 500-pounders were as flea bites to the armored monster, and the enemy force drove...