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...crucial battle of the year centered not in production but in transportation (see map). As the Army predicted, it was above all the year of logistics. A few hours after Pearl Harbor the Santa Fe's Super Chief and the Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles were holed into sidings to let the first troop and munition trains thunder westward to the Coast. From then on the rails, which during 1940 and 1941 looked ripe for socialization to New Deal enthusiasts, turned in a record which made the socialization argument academic. Passenger-miles increased from 29 billion...
...suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los Lunas, N.M., a prisoner made a jailbreak, leaped to the back of a horse, which promptly threw him off on his head. Deputies woke him up. In Santa Fe, J. D. Wilkerson wounded himself playing the musical...
...Railroads are the big exception to the profits drop. Long the most overtaxed U.S. business, railroaders are now protected from the excess-profits levies by the very rail & ballast that has kept their profits down for years. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe-longest U.S. railroad-earned $16,775,000 in the five months ended last May, more than three times a year ago; Atlantic Coast Line netted $8,938,000 in the same five months, almost double 1941; Union Pacific boosted profits from...
...Breaks. In Santa Fe, the parents of Grace Delgado, who had fallen out of a tree and broken her arm, took her to the hospital, returned, found that her brother had broken his arm wrestling...
Individual issues did even better. In five trading days last week Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rose 4⅞; Sears, Roebuck 3⅛ American Telephone 3; Atlantic Coast Line 2; and General Motors...