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...think," wrote Fred R. Cutcheon of Madison, Wis. to Barren's weekly, "that it is about time we stopped playing Hitler's game and took advantage of the one route between the two continents that is not subject to the submarine menace." Mr. Cutcheon is a tall, white-haired, retired utility executive and electrical engineer. He is appalled at estimates of Allied shipping losses (around 500,000 tons a month), figures the cost of sunk ships plus cargoes as at least $2,000,000,000 a year-not to mention the damage to the Allied war effort...
...line's weakest link, the Bering Strait water jump, Mr. Cutcheon believes dense mine fields and constant, massive air patrols would give ample protection...
...publishing Mr. Cutcheon's letter, Barron's editors made the obvious comment that it was an "unusually interesting" idea, but threw cold water on it because of the time element: the war might be over before the line was finished. Mr. Cutcheon, however, had another idea-extending the Alaska highway to Bering Strait and moving freight there by truck. That raised the possibility of a truck route paralleling the rail route all the way to industrial Russia, and perhaps built first...
Hardly less spectacular was the two mile victory of B. R. Cutcheon '25 over Nazro of Dartmouth whose desperate bid for first place in the latter stages of the race forced Cutcheon to surpass himself and eliminated the other Crimson entries, P. F. Coburn '24 and J. F. Ryan '26. R. L. Hyatt '24 took first place in the broad jump. The heave of C. A. Eastman '24, which covered 43 feet and one half inches in the shot put, surpassing the old record by seven inches and the recovery of Captain Merrill from some recovery of Captain Merrill from...
...before the 1923-1924 track season that Coach Farrell assumed the position of head coach of the University runners and weight men. He immediately set to work with the promising material at hand J. N. Watters '26, C. A. C. Eastman '24, B. R. Cutcheon '25, R. L. Hyatt '24, R. G. Allen '26, H. T. Dunker '25 and Jefferson Fletcher '25 have all played prominent roles in Crimson track history. In the first year of Coach Farrell's teaching they were to be the nucleus of a strong team. Moreover, at this time, one of the major lights...