Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Haul. The price was not exorbitant: without bearings, the mechanized German war machine eventually would be helpless. But the cost was high enough to elicit a spate of explanation. Said the chief of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command, Brigadier General Frederick L. Anderson: "The entire works are now inactive. ... It may be possible for the Germans eventually to restore 25% of normal productive capacity." President Roosevelt implied that the raid was worth while. The chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy...
...Sicily, required months of preparation. The Allies were able to use 3,267 bottoms in the Mediterranean. The Navy had to make the best of a few score preparing for the Munda operation, shuttling them back & forth to move a load that could have been transported in one haul by a big merchant fleet. Concluded Correspondent Norton-Taylor...
...their best to discourage unnecessary travel. But they are well aware that any Army or Navy wife may insist on writing her own definition of "necessary," and there is no pat answer to the kind of frank explanation given by one eastern girl who had made the long haul out to California: "I don't know why I came out here. It was such a terrible trip. . . . But when I heard Harry was in San Francisco, I just went wild. I had to get to him. He'd been in the Aleutians and I hadn't heard...
...finally up against the hard fact that it has more jobs than workers and that the disparity is growing. Employment is at an alltime high (54.3 millions); unemployment is at the "irreducible minimum." Yet the aircraft industry needs 600,000 workers quick; and the armed forces will haul away another two million men by next July...
...office gave Easterners their first clear oil painting of the future. Fuel-oil users will get "at least" as much oil to heat their homes as last winter, possibly more. Gas-starved Eastern motorists will get relief, too. Now that tank cars can be freed from the Eastern haul, gas & oil supplies can be equalized from the Rockies to the Atlantic. Eastern A-card holders will probably have their gas allowances upped from one and a half to two or three gallons a week, to use as they please; Midwest motorists will probably be cut from four gallons...