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Smallpox is rare on the Atlantic seaboard, occurs mostly in Indiana, Iowa, California, Texas, Illinois...
...tougher and more independent spirit than A. & R. It was born 48 years ago when a burly Scot named John Blue laid the rails to get his lumber, turpentine and rosin to town. Today it originates 35% of its freight traffic, gets the rest through strategic connections with the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk Southern and Cape Fear roads. Some 20% of its freight revenue comes from petroleum; the rest is fertilizer, coal, farm produce, and material for Fort Bragg (20% of non-originated freight). All this, plus $6,000 worth of mail and a $5,000 passenger traffic, gave...
...Teach once lay in wait to raid New World shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic reconnaissance, long on guns...
...communications to the Caribbean lie south along the U. S. coast from the Atlantic seaboard, across the Gulf of Mexico (a near-impregnable American lake) from the oil centres at New Orleans, Houston, Galveston, and down Mexico's coast via the Canal from the Pacific. U. S. bases along these routes are indicated by U. S. flags, foreign bases by anchors. Air bases in the area are indicated by airplanes -red for land craft, blue for seaplanes...
...Axis Fleet. In a general way, if less than a third of the British Fleet is lost to Nazi air attacks, torpedoes, mines and naval attack, the rest would be roughly equal in tonnage to the present U. S. Fleet. Whether it could protect the North American seaboard and still keep open the sea routes to Africa, while the U. S. Fleet stayed in the Pacific, is questionable. But based in the Western Hemisphere, it would still be the major power in the Atlantic with a superiority of around 2-to-1 over the Axis Fleet, if both operated...