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...costs rising and revenues dropping since V-J day, railroads have been struggling to keep their heads above water. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission threw them a lifesaver: a 6% increase in freight rates, effective July 1-except for certain basic commodities such as products of agriculture, slag, gravel, etc. on which the boost was only 3%. To make up for their lower rate of earnings, Eastern railroads were allowed a further increase of 5% on all but anthracite and bituminous coal, lignite and iron...
...Army's Japanese farms will be divided into five-acre plots, ridged with about 90 concrete growing basins. Washed gravel fills them to give anchorage for growing plants. Down the troughlike basins (they slope gently, are graduated in three broad steps) floods chemically charged water, two or three times a day. In hydroponic farming the irrigating water is loaded with soluble salts of every specific chemical needed, and thus may be superior to any natural soil, for few soils contain all the essentials for vigorous plant growth...
...last leg Musk-Ox bogged down. The snowmobiles which had licked the northern wilderness could not take modern highway conditions. On the gravel of the Alaska Highway their engines became clogged with dust, the heat in the vehicles became unbearable. At Grand Prairie, Alberta, with but 250 miles to go to Edmonton, Musk-Ox called for help. A special train was sent up. Eighty days out of Churchill, Manitoba, the weary men of Musk-Ox were glad to load their snowmobiles on the train, pile on themselves for the ride to their goal...
...greatest jazzman of them all, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, was back on Broadway. The word spread, the devotees gathered. But jazz purists who went prospecting for his golden trumpet notes had to pan out a lot of wet gravel...
...black Packard limousine hummed up the long gravel driveway and crunched to a stop near the big grey house with the white-pillared portico. The President, having arrived a few minutes late, hurriedly got out. "We thought we'd lost you," said Anna Eleanor Roosevelt as she extended her hand...