Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigadier General John A. Appleton, former Pennsylvania Railroad executive, will govern transport, and Brigadier General William H. Draper, former New York investment banker, will take over the vast economic section...
...carriers, standing off Kyushu, attacked for three days, raked 19 airfields, destroyed or damaged 284 Japanese planes, bombed railroad lines, storage dumps. U.S. losses: ten planes, one major fleet unit damaged...
...been Cologne they discovered, surprisingly enough, that the Ford Motor Co. plant was only 15% damaged by bombs and artillery fire. More surprising, G-5 found that some hundreds of trucks could be assembled from the large stock of parts on hand. Apparently, the mauling given the German railroad system by Allied airmen had not entirely blocked the delivery of carburetors, engines, chassis, etc., from subcontractors throughout Germany. Promptly G-5 summoned the Burgomaster of Cologne, ordered him to round up Ford workers, get them back to work. Their production last week: ten trucks a day, delivered...
...civilian industries after midsummer. Out of 2½ million tons of steel that will be available from military cutbacks, WPB Boss Krug estimated that the auto industry will get about 300,000 tons, enough for 200,000 cars. The balance of the steel will go to manufacturers of railroad cars, farm machinery, refrigerators, washing machines...
During that time he has diverted more than 272,000 carloads of freight from one railroad to another, cleaned up the mess that Pearl Harbor made of West Coast ports, generally won the respect of railroadmen for his nimble thinking...