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Frustrated freight is the Washington nickname for goods that were manufactured, paid for, consigned and ready for shipment to all kinds of "friendly" governments and nationals-but never left the U.S. It consists of shells, motors, machines, pipe, steel bars, copper wire etc. ordered by the whole roster of European nations now Axis-occupied, not to mention China and all the Good Neighbor Republics. The goods got to some port of embarkation and frustration began-usually no ships...
...first pipe or two disappointed him, but he persisted, hoping for the dreams of which he had read. These came eventually and one of them, which recurred over some weeks, seemed to him to contain the key to the secret of the universe. With an enormous effort he managed one night to write the secret down. The denouement, he says, was disappointing, for on the following morning he read 'The banana is great, but the skin is greater...
...long racks were hung hundreds of twisted pipe lengths ready to be placed in their special places in the ship's belly. In warehouses were stored valves sent from Massachusetts, winches from Ohio, the thousands of small parts which manufacturers had faithfully fashioned to minute specifications, ready to be carried aboard, bolted or welded into place...
...bomb arched earthward in a wide parabola. Twenty-six seconds passed. At last the men in the tower saw it strike the target, saw a puny, firecracker flash of flame, followed by a pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...company's "products had found their way into so many war uses that the company could not supply more than a fraction of the demand, despite substantial increases in production facilities." A few production uses are: gliders, torpedo boats, mine sweepers, cargo vessels, army landing boats, defense housing, pipe, chemical vats, shipping containers...