Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since January 1, 1943, TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM have been cooperating with the War Production Board on conservation of paper. During the year 1944, these four publications will use 73,000,000 lb.( 1,450 freight carloads) less paper than in 1942. In view of resulting shortages of copies, please share your copy of TIME with your friends...
...chose Puerto Rico for the first shipment because there is a serious milk shortage on the island (40% of Puerto Ricans get no milk). The heifers, donated by farmer Brethren, are worth $200 to $300 apiece. The only cost to the Puerto Rican farmers who get them will be freight charges, totaling about...
While in Italy the shuttle bombers made two missions with the Fifteenth Air Force-an oil refinery at Budapest, railway freight yards in Rumania. They flew back to England, on the way bombed the Beziers railway yard near Montpellier in southern France. On this swing the shuttlers met spotty and confused Nazi air resistance. They shot down at least 45 German planes, lost only three Mustangs, not a single Fortress...
...harvest. Could the railroads do it? Usually the Santa Fe, largest U.S. wheat carrier, spots 10,000 wheat cars at key junction points for the harvest. But last week the Santa Fe, which owns 35,000 boxcars, could spare only 889. All other cars were carrying high-priority freight up & down the nation...
...aghast at the destruction. Major General Cecil Ray Moore, chief engineer of ETOUSA, said Hennecke had "knocked hell out of the port," but insisted it was "in better shape than I expected." But he emphasized that Cherbourg had been mainly a passenger port, received only a negligible amount of freight (155,000 tons in 1938, contrasted with 1,300,000 for the little canal port, Caen), could not be compared with Naples. Now it was up to the rebuilders to step up its capacity...