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Deliberately, Taub left transportation from the program, to be planned separately. But the industrial program provides for part of the equipment needed to expand transportation in China. The plan includes cement plants, locomotive and freight-car shops, and factories to make earth-moving equipment. It also plans to locate many industries at Jap-held centers like Peiping and Tientsin...
...Electric eyes for reading and recording freight-car numbers...
...Freight-car facts of last week: only Bethlehem Steel, which makes its own plates, was able to push its August output (599 cars) above July (244). Even Bethlehem produced cars at only 75% of rated capacity; American Car & Foundry turned them out at only 18% of capacity in August, Pullman-Standard at 15%; the industry as a whole was at less than 50%. For the first eight months of 1941, only 49,134 new cars were put into service v. 44,791 last year, but on Labor Day the railroads had 92,033 cars on order (v. 18,456 last...
Estimates of October freight-car supplies and loadings were a dime a dozen last week. Ralph Budd admitted that there would be 20,000 fewer new cars than the roads had planned for; the National Planning Association predicted a 40,000-50,000 car shortage; the latest OPM report figured there would be a deficit of 80,000 cars. But on one score there was clear agreement: the coal movement might be the backbreaking straw...
Prime example of why total steel priorities were necessary last week (see p. 61) is the case of freight-car builders. Two months ago they were handed an A-3 priorities rating on steel. This put freight cars, of which the roads have 103,000 on order, in the same urgency class as Maritime Commission merchant ships. But with steelmakers choked on A-1 and A-2 orders and those of their regular civilian customers, car builders found their rating as useless as a next season's theater pass. The results, as reported in the Railway...