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...busy? . . .' " 'Nobody's ever so busy he can't take on something more, if he knows how to unload the detail. . . . We set up the blueprint of an organization. . . . We swear in the presidents of the companies as enforcement officers. They are instructed to haul the flag up over the plants and to exhibit the posters we send out explaining the situation. . . Last time we beat all records with the posters ... we got them out over the weekend...
...next great problem was to haul the 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...
...bombs, gas and technical equipment must be flown in over the "Hump" route from India. Planes bringing in gas use several times the amount of their payload, just to get it there; the B-29s have proved to be their own most efficient tank cars. How much they can haul, and how often they can crank up new raids, now rates a spot well up on the crowded list of things the Japs must worry about...
Newest 8-in. weapon in the U.S. arsenal is the gun which throws a 240-lb. shell up to 19.8 miles. Two 38-ton tractors are required to haul the gun and its carriage into place. A 20-ton truck-mounted crane goes along to assemble the two parts...
Newest 8-in. weapon in the U.S. arsenal is the gun which throws a 240-lb. shell up to 19.8 miles. Two 38-ton tractors are required to haul the gun and its carriage into place. A 20-ton truck-mounted crane goes along to assemble the two parts...