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...They go aboard like planes or tanks-ready for use in any emergency. One reason is obvious: Suppose a shipment of CKDs to Rangoon, where there were adequate assembly facilities, had to be diverted after Rangoon's fall to Ceylon, where there are not? The CKDs would become junk. Anyway, speed looks more important than space saving to the Army now. Hence three-fourths of the "cubic" of many ships to Australia continues to be wasted. Last week Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade told Oakland shipyard workers that thousands of needed Army trucks have been stored...
...abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view. As boss of RFC, the Department of Commerce, a dozen other related and unrelated New Deal agencies, he saved many a bank, railroad and factory from the financial junk heap, made money for the Government...
...Burma. Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River...
...helped in hospitals, escaped from scorched-out Changsha in a junk. Later, with some coolies, he walked a friend's three Chinese children cross-country, trying to reach the nearest train. The retreating Chinese destroyed railway lines more quickly than Schoyer and the children could reach them, but they finally got to safety. In Manhattan Schoyer now runs Spotlight on Asia, a radio program, for the Institute of Pacific Relations. He wants to get back to China...
...thousands will take on the cities. Meanwhile, Rosenwald's Auto Graveyard Section is after 3,000,000-3,750,000 tons of jalopy. If Matt Fox's plan turns up the 4,000,000-6,000,000 tons of scrap that he hopes for, the Battle of Junk will...