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...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...
...years' supply within five years. The Bureau of Mines has a two-stage process for getting alumina from a variety of domestic clays, shales and feldspars; if WPB would specify this process in future alumina plants instead of the commercial Bayer process, it would save the long bauxite haul from Dutch Guiana. The Bureau also has three new processes for producing magnesium...
...will run the route without a mail contract, therefore at a loss. Since April 1937, Am Ex has scrapped up & down Congressional hallways for a mail subsidy, was always outmaneuvered, outweighed by nimble giant Pan Am, which wants the Atlantic route to itself. But Am Ex can still haul diplomats and military big shots, fat sacks of foreign mail. Estimated annual loss: $196,000. But Am Ex has a powerful ally in American Export Lines, Inc., which earned $10,000,000 in 1941's first nine months, owns 70% of the airline stock...