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...start: on his departure from Ankara, police refused to let any of Inonu's supporters into the railway station. When he tried to speak from the train to a crowd of Republicans at Eskisehir, a city of 125,000, engine whistles blasted throughout his speech, and a freight train was backed onto the main line between Inonu and the crowd...
...city hall for the first ship to arrive. Even as the lock gates yawned a welcome to the world's shipping, Midwestern industrialists began to count their gains. In a bow to the seaway's competition, Eastern railroads proposed a reduction of 10% to 30% on freight between the lake ports and the Atlantic seaboard...
...this strenuous action did not get enough trains back on the run. So many key trainmen stayed out that service was reduced by as much as a half and trains ran hours behind schedule. Rotting cargo piled up at freight sidings through the country, and a food shortage threatened Mexico City...
Along the waterfront of Poland's rubble-strewn Szczecin (formerly Stettin) towering cranes on six miles of rebuilt docks load and unload freight at the annual rate of 4,000,000 tons. In Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) bright new arc lights along the main streets have ended years of dim nights in the city's bomb-shattered center. After years of neglect, Poland's "western territories," the lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers taken from Germany after the war, are slowly emerging from postwar desolation...
...FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE is expected because "bad order ratio" (number of cars out of service because of a need for repairs), has risen above safe level of 5% to 8.6% national average. In some areas, such as the Allegheny region (which includes the Pennsylvania and B. & O. roads), the average...