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...Many tank cars now highballing the long 2,000-mile run from Texas to New England could be loaded with the same oil pumped from Texas to the Midwest through pipelines. The shorter haul would cut car mileage by half, turn-around time by at least 25%; thus help the railroads step up their deliveries from last week's 837,000 barrels daily to better than a million...
...week record-collecting campaign came to an official halt this week, with returns still far from complete, Manhattan headquarters felt sure that the haul had netted at least 20,000,000 records-5,000 tons of scrap material...
West Coast fishermen have troubles too. The sardine haul normally runs over a billion pounds a year (onefourth of the entire U.S. catch), goes into food, fish oil, fish meal and fertilizer. But this year bad weather, the loss of Jap and Italian crewmen, and Navy restrictions on when & where fishermen can fish have slashed output as much as 50%. The valuable tuna catch has also slumped, for the big fish are caught only in deep water far offshore. Fish prices have not risen as in New England. Reason: the Government is buying the entire 1942 sardine and tuna catch...
...ample quantity of the picturesque. The story is a childhood favorite built around a family attired in dresses lifted from Godey's Ladies' Magazine and smothered in Victorian ideals and sentiments. There is humor, philosophy, and pathos. The combination means that superb acting and directing are necessary to haul this old chestnut out of the coals...
...real scandal was that nobody, before Pearl Harbor, had the combined foresight and strength of character to haul Jesse over the White House coals-and Jesse had forehandedly had his penny-pinching notions approved by the President. The U.S. was caught so short that somebody should have been impeached-but no one could put his finger on whom to impeach. Jesse Jones was rubber king by default, not by delegation of powers...