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...completed, the motors were started on the pumps at Longview and the thick, black crude oil had begun the slow, oozing (three miles per hour) journey north and eastward. Some ten days later it would reach the storage tanks at Norris City; from there tank cars would soon haul it to the Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife gets water from the kitchen faucet. And the spigot...
...shortest haul to any of the Allied battlefronts is 1,200 miles, the longest 14,000 miles. Every new front opened-in New Guinea, the Solomons, North Africa-is a strategic gain for the Allies, but it also imposes an additional drain on available shipping. The invasion of North Africa, and supply for the Allies after they were established in that theater, have required some 1,000 merchant voyages to date (the number of ships, each making several trips, may be considerably less...
...landing 2,000,000 lb. of supplies a week. In a single day he delivered 519,000 lb.-100 planeloads. He flew in a 250-bed hospital with enough equipment to maintain it for ten days. He delivered a four-gun battery of 105-mm. howitzers, with tractors to haul them and crews to operate them. A Flying Fortress is designed to carry no more than 6,000 lb.; a 105-mm. howitzer unit weighs 7,000. Kenney flew the guns 1,500 miles from Australia and delivered them over weather-treacherous, 12,000-ft. mountains to makeshift airfields. Among...
...well that in February 1941 the Navy ordered Alligators worth over $3,000,000. Their job: to haul men, munitions and supplies from battleships and transports on to enemy shores, thus speed and simplify dangerous invasion jobs. Donald looked around for a manufacturer, finally handed the order to nearby Food Machinery Corp. (spray pumps, fruit washers, etc.), which normally makes nothing more deadly than a peach pitter, but had made parts for Roebling's experimental models. Today Food Machinery alone has orders for over $50,000,000 worth of Alligators, and hundreds of others are being made by Borg...
...five 'Southern states, western New York and Pennsylvania (the cars will rush oil to New England); 2) WPB permission to build 300 tank trailer trucks, each of 4,000-gallon capacity; 3) Early assignment to oil service of some of the 26,000 cars now used to haul vegetable oils, chemicals, alcohol and wine...