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Almost unknown to U.S. citizens, M-H nevertheless is the king of its field: the world's most enormous trucks, all-wheel drive, extra-heavy duty, able to haul almost anything almost anywhere. Only ten years old, it has sold thousands of square-hooded, locomotive-like behemoths to lumbermen, miners, oilmen, highway departments. In the Louisiana oil fields M-H trucks are called "Mud Cats" because they slosh through hub-deep mud as though equipped with web wheels, in Western lumber camps they climb rough 40° grades so easily they are known as "Mountain Goats...
...week's end the British were getting reinforcements into action. They reported the situation somewhat more in control. The jig was not up yet, by a good haul...
...Pullman tourist sleepers which, minus porters and bedding, will be used as coaches. The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington...
...dashing Morgan or Gates tradition is President James Brents Hill, 63. A penny pincher, he peppers his 26,600 employes with "president's messages" on thrift and courtesy. He once told employes to conserve pencils because L. & N. had to haul 1,887 lb. of freight a mile...
...Lisbon, two of its three weekly flights continuing from there to Foynes (4,590 miles). Later the Clippers will fly the northern route (3,067 miles) with a stop in Newfoundland. Between Foynes and England, Britain's Overseas line will operate a shuttle-a shorter and speedier haul than its present 1,100-mile wartime semicircle between Lisbon and England...