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...Boss Leon Henderson made a concession to politicos who are worried about what lack of gasoline might do to their old-fashioned town-to-town stumping. OPA announced that bona fide candidates will get enough gas to do their electioneering, that local political machines can count on enough to haul voters to the polls on election days. Question in both instances: How much is enough...
Each of the 96 airline-operated sky-freighters now flies close to 1,500 miles daily with up to 3,500 pounds of cargo-plus officers and soldiers. All told they haul a smacking 500 tons a week, four times as much as Army pilots ever carried. Beamed one Army colonel: "a magic carpet of transportation." Boasted tough, air-wise General Henry J. F. Miller, drafted from Wright Field to head the ASC: "the hardest-working planes in the world...
...even the 8% it was still possible to import did not sound dependable: 6% came from Ceylon—a long haul through Jap-infested waters—and the other 2% from Africa and Latin America...
...Church-leased busses to haul in a congregation. In Elizabeth, N.J. a church chartered a bus to pick up parishioners and carry them to service...
...World War I, U.S. railroads used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter...