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India has also exported food and rolling stock to the Middle East to aid Allied forces and to help transport Lend-Lease shipments to Russia. As a result the Indian railroads are underequipped for food distribution and further handicapped by the conversion of many railroad shops to war production. War has caused a shortage of bottoms for coastwise food shipment...
...horizon. If the Russians pushed into Finland-to root out the bases from which Nazi planes and U-boats were sinking ships bringing aid to Russia-or if the Allies landed in northern Norway, Germany might be able to defend her northern outposts only if Sweden allowed the shipment of reinforcements and supplies across Swedish territory. If Stockholm agreed, it would be a flagrant violation of her neutrality. If she refused, she could expect a German attack...
...first batches were ready for shipment to Europe when the Armistice was signed. None saw combat, but lewisite had earned a sinister name-Dew of Death-because a few drops on a man's skin were sufficient to kill. Heavier and more persistent than mustard gas, lewisite is an arsenic compound which smells like geraniums, bears the scientific name of beta-chlorvinyldichlorarsine. While mustard causes many casualties but few deaths, lewisite was expected to cause a greater proportion of deaths...
Investigation of available shipping methods by the Council has resulted in the following information. Shipment by van is influenced by the fact that the amount that is shipped is limited to 1000 pounds and the bill of lading must be from one point to another for the whole shipment. This might, however, prove the cheaper solution if several students residing in one town were to join together. Railway Express requires separate crating for each article, which would create considerable difficulties...
While at the anti-aircraft station, the Crimson contingent learned to take apart and assemble all types of ack-ack guns as well as getting experience in firing them. They also won the commendation of the station's officers by piling out of bed one night to unload a shipment of ammunition...