Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All week long empty boxcars from the East clattered into Midwest terminals. As fast as the cars arrived, the railroads routed them to prairie lines, where more than a billion bushels of corn and wheat from last year's harvest lay unshipped.
The railroads were racing against time and waste, but from the Panhandle to the Dakotas the worried farmers doubted that the railroads could win. There were just not enough cars to move the mountains of grain before millions of bushels of high-moisture-content corn, now piled in the open...
Last week, as the recurrent seriousness of the food situation hit home once again (see U.S. AT WAR), grain shippers and elevator operators deluged the Office of Defense Transportation with appeals for help. Gist of the appeals: ODT should get tough and force Eastern railroads to return thousands of cars...
Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose.
Now WPB put the time at six months or longer. Once WPB had tacitly agreed to new cars - 2,000,000 a year - after V-E day. Now it was significantly silent on any carmaking.