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North from Florida in a gritty whirl of orange peels and wax paper rattled a train of ancient, ill-assorted day coaches last week-the first "relief train" hauling stranded escapists home. Its faded red & green cars got to Manhattan five hours late, released some 500 battered passengers, and went back empty to haul another load away. Next day the second of the two extra coach trains allowed by ODT for the Great Evacuation arrived three hours late. The sordid shuttling will go on; by midsummer, said ODT, all the suntanned refugees may get home...
...base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat the 33-lb. Piat is handled by a two-man team, one to aim and fire, the other to haul ammunition and reload...
...ship to general British specifications early in the war. First named the P-51 Apache, it was shipped to Britain in 1941. In those grim days the British needed, above all else, fast-climbing, high-altitude interceptors. The Mustang's original 1,150-h.p. Allison engine could not haul it upstairs to catch the souped-up Messerschmitts that were cruising over England at 30,000 ft., so the planes were relegated to reconnaissance duty with the Army Co-operation Command-a hollow and almost academic assignment...
Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector apparatus, pricking up her mechanical ears, hunting hungrily for a fat Allied convoy on the long haul to Murmansk with materiel for the Red Army...
...helped haul heavy cannon ashore and emplaced them...