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...railroad reorganization wringer squeezed tighter last week. Stockholders in two once-bankrupt carriers saw their chances of participating in juicy war profits gurgle down the drain. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision barring any revision of ICC's plan to streamline the financial structure of the Chicago & North Western Railway. A Federal court in New Haven approved, with slight modifications, ICC's amputation of the top-heavy debt of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad...
...Western Allies had a good reason: they lacked the troops, planes, ships to protect Turkey against the Germans, or to make use of her strategic position in a Balkan campaign. In effect, during this welcome neutrality Turkey at war would probably have put a severer drain upon Britain and the U.S. than upon Germany. As late as last February, Churchill told the House of Commons: "It is not part of our policy to get Turkey into trouble...
...Mediterranean, Jimmy Doolittle's newly formed Fifteenth U.S. Air Force got away with murder all the way from the Riviera to the Peloponnesus. To stop Doolittle, the Germans would have to drain fighters from northern airfields...
...drain on this space: bales of paper money which inflated China has to import...
...Naval Drain. The Japanese reacted sharply to the invasion, but still did not commit anything like a battlefleet or a carrier task force. Even the limited reaction cost them dearly...