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...addition to the all-star honors, Peabody, MacKinney, and Pfister have had a multitude of other honors heaped upon them during the past week. The biggest haul of all was made by the Crimson team when it placed seven men on the United Press all-New England squad-five of them on the first string...
Today copper is 12? a lb., not 16?. Yet the Morenci ores, though low-grade, will still yield a profit. When production starts, nine 125-ton electric locomotives will haul 75,000 tons of rock from the pit each day, dump 50,000 tons of waste into the canyons, spill the rest into ore bins. Each ton of ore will yield 21 lb. of copper-a daily smelter production of around 260 tons...
Vice President Henry A. Wallace's Economic Defense Board completed a sleuthing job last week, came up with a rich haul of loot. In the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad yards in Hoboken, N.J., the board's investigators found the following war supplies, stranded in warehouses and freight cars ever since the consignees had been cut off by Hitler's conquests...
...North Carolina ever gets into a history of U.S. railroads, it will be a footnote to a footnote. It operates 95.82 miles of single track from Morehead City (pop. 3,483) on the coast to Goldsboro (pop. 14,958). Tarheels call it the "Mullet Line," because it used to haul so many fish. Yet last week no U.S. railroad man, seeking to justify private v. State ownership, could have hoped for a neater case than the Atlantic & North Carolina...
...unquestionably has not been used to full efficiency in the past. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission hastily approved new rail rates-about 25% lower on gasoline, 27-40% lower on crude oil-which will give both oilmen and railroads a chance to prove how much more they can haul...