Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...that handle Cuban sugar are nearly all located north of Baltimore. This means that, at a time when shipping is at a premium, raw sugar takes a long voyage up the dangerous coast rather than a short hop from Cuba to Florida-or taxes the railroads with a double haul...
This record was not achieved because anyone ever found the much-talked-of cache of unused tank cars. It was accomplished by gathering all the tank cars formerly used for regional distribution (oil trucks are doing more short-haul work) and using them more & more efficiently. All tank-car trains now run on fast schedule from Texas to New York, from pipeline terminals in the Midwest to New England. To speed turnaround, tank cars are now spotted (i.e., switched to sidings) three times a day instead of once, unloaded seven days a week instead of five...
...transport that could never compete with pipelines or tankers for the coastal trade in times of peace. Barge tows of the inland waterways creep up the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Monongahela, the Allegheny to upriver terminals, there transfer their oil to tank cars for the short haul east. Already Gulf loadings of river barges have doubled or tripled over last year. Loaded at Houston or Corpus Christi, the barges now thread their way through the shallows and marshes of the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi. After April 1, when an intracoastal canal through these waters will be opened...