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...lose, their owner remains essentially exuberant. "This is my pleasure-I'm in it for sport," explains the woman who is listed by her non-professional name-Mrs. Elizabeth N. Graham-in the Daily Racing Form. Now that her stable is stuck in the Chicago area by ODT's shipping ban, she is going to try her luck in the 64-day Washington Park meet opening next week. It is certain to add a lot of profitable sport to the $141,270's worth (gross winnings) she has already had this season...
Action. In Washington, ODT complained that the Army had grossly underestimated the flooding tide of redeployed fighting men. The Army denied it. But ODT's Colonel J. Monroe Johnson put his head together with War Department officials, swiftly worked out a program...
...looked almost hopeless, but ODT and the railroads were not just sitting around in tears. Last week, Defense Plant Corp. was prevailed upon to finance the building of 1,200 more troop sleepers and 400 boxcar kitchens-double the number now in use. If steel is available-and this was a big if-the new cars should be ready in the fall. But they may not be ready in time for this year's transportation crisis...
Another move: tall, grey-haired Colonel John Monroe Johnson, ODT boss, recommended that the Army release 50,000 experienced railroad men to help in shifting the fighting men to the West...
Doubles: Hunt and Hutchinson (B) defeated Hunter and Levin (H) 6-4, 1-6, 6-2; Odt and Newman (B) defeated Robert and Smith (H) 6-2, 9-7; Littlefield and Frothingham (H) defeated Avery and Salter...