Word: overlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This will introduce Richard Tewkesbury, a reckless stubborn young American who is ambitious to make the trip overland from the Canal to Colombia. I urge you to dissuade him from this mad adventure. If, however, he will not be discouraged, will you please give him such assistance as you reasonably...
...therefore turned to pipelines. To avert exhaustion of its eastern stocks, Standard of New Jersey last week started pumping 27,500 barrels of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana crude a day via Tulsa and southern Illinois to its New Jersey refinery, 1,700 miles in all. The cost of this overland routing is 60? a barrel, against 21? or less by tanker. The rail rate would be about $1.80. Such cost increases make Leon Henderson's price-holding job more ticklish than ever...
...Overland operators are angling for 25-ton, four-engined Douglas planes (present DC-35 weigh 12½ tons loaded), four-engined, 22½-ton Boeing Stratoliners and Curtiss-Wright's new twin-engined, 36-passenger...
...traffic will be imported goods from the Pacific carried by ships which formerly continued on through the canal to East Coast ports. Since ships waste 30-35 days going to the East Coast and returning to the Pacific, such cargoes now will be landed on the West Coast, sent overland by rail. Important among them are rubber (estimated to amount to 354,000 tons this year), and tin (45,000 tons) from the Far East. Furthermore, nitrates (300,000 tons) and copper (300,000 tons) from South America's West Coast may soon be landed in the South, shipped...
...Russia's overland aid to China stops as a result of the Russo-Japanese Pact, China's resistance will depend more than ever on the aid that the U.S. can ship across the Pacific. Last week Secretary Hull (who had previously minimized the Russo-Japanese Pact) let it be known that U.S.-Russian talks were getting nowhere, hinted at an end to attempts to appease Russia. Next day he talked with Lord Halifax and Australian Minister Richard Casey. Probable subject: U.S. use of Singapore-without which, in the event of war, U.S. communication with China...