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...Future. The badly beaten Japs had left Rangoon's fine port unblocked and virtually undamaged. Soon Allied seaborne supplies for China could be transferred there to the rails that run to Lashio, as they were before the Japs took Burma. The slow, arduous truck haul over the Stilwell Road from India to Lashio might soon be merely a secondary supply service...
...fleet was the world's seventh largest (1,532 ships, 2,972,871 tons), had shown their usual perspicacity by placing their orders early. During the war the Dutch have lost 50% of their trim ships, including the crack liners Statendam, Veendam. New ships will be needed to haul reconstruction materials and rawmaterials to Holland. In the teeming Netherlands East Indies the only means of communications between the many islands is by coastal steamer...
...Tractors haul the loaded trailers to "surge pools" (assembly points) where they are ticketed for caravans. Over the ABC route, which is even more efficient than the old, famed Red Ball, trucks haul ten-ton trailers to the front; 1,200 are in operation between Antwerp, Louvain, Liége, and other strategic points...
...thing to Molotov, another to Clark Kerr and Harriman. The Commissar insisted that the agreement required just a few changes in the Government, all subject to veto by the present Warsaw Poles. The U.S. and British Ambassadors would have none of this. They insisted on a complete over haul, keeping elements of the present Gov ernment as a nucleus but also including Poland's non-Communist parties on an equal basis. From these extremes, the negotiators labored toward compromise...
...Shanghai the Japs took over the light and power plant owned by American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. Recently the United Press in Chungking reported a rumor that the Japs now plan to dismantle the $20 million plant and haul it away to their stronghold in Manchuria...