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...nightly curfew on gasoline stations might soon be withdrawn. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads told a Senate Committee he could have the 20,000 cars rolling in a week or two, said 200,000 barrels a day was a conservative estimate of what could haul from Texas to the East. Since the highest estimate of the shortage is 174,000 barrels a day, that would mean the oil drought was over...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood in a speech promised Russia all the credit she could use, warned at the same time that help to Russia would mean that Britons must haul in another notch in their belts. What Sir Kingsley did not say was how much of her own meager supplies Britain can spare for the Russians, how the supplies can be sent...
Four days after he went to work as an unpaid A.R.P. warden, Monty Finch plunged into the flooded cellar of a bombed house, swam and waded nose-deep through rafts of debris, past crumbling walls to haul an old man, an old woman, several other bombees out to safety. Next day he confided to another warden, "I shan't be alive much longer. One of these air raids will get me." Three days later the air raids got him with a direct hit, right in front of his post...
...East Coast fleet: 221). By year's end eleven of these will be in the water, by next April another 14. Better still, the 25 new ships will be so big (16,000 tons average), and so fast (15 knots or better) that they will be able to haul as much oil as the 50 tankers handed to Britain...
...from European Russia, Adolf Hitler would get a potentially big haul. But considering sabotage possibilities, and most importantly Russia's own needs - if it is to remain enough of a going concern to make its conquest worthwhile at all - it is likely that the big haul would take a long time. Possibly Hitler could hold and control Russia long enough for German technical and administrative genius to make the big haul come true. The alternative might be one of the greatest headaches in history...