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...with death and fire; industrial Japan is ripe for the killing; one bomber to China is the equal of ten to Britain and every bombing of Japan would make the backdoor of the British Empire that much more secure. Urgent too was the Chinese need for transport planes to haul quickly needed vital materials from an Indian railhead to interior points. But the British out-begged them...
...above all the shift turned the heat on besieged, already broiling-hot Tobruch. For two months the British had clung to this inhospitable town because it lay athwart the Axis lines leading to Egypt. All week long Axis dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would...
...wells ran dry in Indiana and Kentucky, farmers used trucks to haul water for their stock. In New York, garden crops were badly damaged, lack of hay and pasturage threatened a shortage of dairy products. Farmers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia met in Richmond, sent Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard a plea for "immediate help." In the Ashland, Va. Herald-Progress Publisher Paul Watkins advertised: "WANTED: One good rain for immediate delivery. . . . No thunder showers, ten-minute gully-washers, easy sprinklers or dust-layers need apply...
Only alternatives to the tanker haul are railroads and pipelines. But railroad tank cars, used mostly for refined products, number only 140,000 for the whole U.S., carry only 250 barrels a car, and charge a rate many times as high as the cost by tanker. Admittedly, they can't fill the hole. The oil companies, which own most of the pipelines anyway, have therefore turned to pipelines. To avert exhaustion of its eastern stocks, Standard of New Jersey last week started pumping 27,500 barrels of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana crude a day via Tulsa and southern Illinois...
...most significant new line announced last week was a 250-mile short cut from Portland (Me.) to Montreal. Standard of New Jersey has already ordered the tubing, and expects to finish the job in less than eight months. It will replace the long tanker haul around the Gaspé and up the St. Lawrence to Canada's chief distributing point. Its significance: the transport problem is a hemispheric problem, and its solution must see that the U.S.'s neighbors are served...