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Carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines steamed into East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast ports-Seattle, San Francisco, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York-while landing ships waddled up the rivers and canals to inland cities like St. Louis, Cairo, Ill., Dubuque, Iowa, Minneapolis and St. Paul...
Last week in London eleven nations signed a pact creating an advisory European Central Inland Transport Organization. This was in some ways broader, in others narrower than Truman's idea. It was broader because it included railways and highways as well as waterways; it was narrower because it affected only immediate operational problems, did not establish the political principle of internationalized transport. Russia, joining in the operational agreement, wanted more time to study the broader principle...
...supposed to say on such an occasion-quite the opposite. Cried he: "If the appeal to you . . . is national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal policy, fatal to enterprise, fatal to efficiency, fatal to the independent spirit of the worker...
...vital plants had cost $22,319,274. Other money went for simpler tone-down work or "disruptive painting" at smaller plants, antiaircraft posts, airfields. In the heat of its enthusiasm for plenty of camouflage, the Corps of Engineers gave out contracts for disguising fields hundreds of miles inland...
...week began, Major General Curtis LeMay wound up and pitched the biggest Superfort strike yet. Nearly 600 planes dropped 4,000 tons of fire bombs on four new targets in Kyushu and the toe of Honshu. The Japs could begin counting off Kure, greatest naval base on the Inland Sea; Ube, coal and magnesium center; Shimonoseki, seaport; Kumamoto, military and industrial city...