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...that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress is an all-time low. Well, I can cite you as good men in this Congress as you could find in any Congress in history...
Helen Slocum's husband Lawrence delivered new cars on a haul-away trailer out of Detroit ten years ago, and business was terrible. One day she "read in the paper about some boat races, and got to wondering how they hauled these boats around." Later she heard that Yachtsman Russell A. Alger Jr. was going to take 13 new sloops from Detroit to Charlevoix, Mich., asked...
People wondered. Mr. Biddle never seems to haul Thurman Arnold off capital's neck -although Arnold has many times "expressed" himself about the nation's great corporations...
When the first (Ickes) East Coast oil shortage raised its head last fall, John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, claimed that the railroads could muster 20,000 tank cars and haul 200,000 barrels of oil to the coast daily. Skeptics doubted it. Last week the railroads were doing better than that. In 44,000 tank cars they delivered at the seaboard an average of 600,000 barrels of oil daily-nearly half the East Coast's total consumption...
...eight days.) Trucks move heavy tonnage of foodstuffs and supplies to Army camps; make hour-by-hour deliveries of parts from subcontractors to prime producers. Tractors (engine and cab units) now work around the clock seven days a week, shuttling trailers better than 400 ton-miles a day. Big haul-away units that once delivered a million automobiles yearly are being refitted to handle ambulances and army-type vehicles...