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...think it can be said, briefly and soberly, that we have survived the crisis, that an unsteady equilibrium has been established, but that no settlement is in sight and that we are now settling down for the long haul," Stevenson said...
...Turkey the U.S. sent 806 Army mules, the last of 5,600 shipped overseas to help the Turks haul their military hardware up & down the Caucasus crags...
Pioneering Po Toke. Oozies are the natives who train, ride and care for working elephants. Bandoola's oozie was called Po Toke. At first Po Toke had little to do. Elephants mature slowly, take five years to be weaned, another eleven before they can begin to pull and haul heavy teak logs from the hills to the rivers. Author Williams gives Po Toke credit for two pioneering firsts that changed the course of elephant training: 1) Bandoola was the first Burmese work elephant reared from birth in captivity; 2) he was trained with kindness. Previous trainers captured grown elephants...
...business is north-south freight, and the ships would cut out 60% of McLean's expensive highway mileage. Though overall shipping time would be slower (30 hours for ships from Wilmington to New York v. 18 for trucks), costs would drop sharply; McLean figures that its ships can haul freight 50% cheaper than trucks on the highway, take business away from railroads...
...French did not want to lose a capital, however unimportant. They flew in reinforcements, swept the outskirt junglebrush to clear their field of fire, and borrowed the royal elephants to haul wood for their entrenchments. The French believed they could hold Luang Prabang, but the Communists had already loped 100 miles toward the city from their start line-a headline that went round the world. Men died in these skirmishes, but the fact remains that Indo-China is not primarily a real-estate war. So far, Navarre has denied the Communists what they most want-the rice-rich delta around...