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...largest U.S. troop shipment yet sent to the British Isles in World War II landed in Northern Ireland last week...
...vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers regularly shipped CKD to Australia before the war; on Lend-Lease shipments, they are doing it now. Springs are compressed, wheels and fenders nested, frames squeezed and stacked. Each shipment is a folded embryo of trucks...
...when the trucks are U.S. Army trucks. They go aboard like planes or tanks-ready for use in any emergency. One reason is obvious: Suppose a shipment of CKDs to Rangoon, where there were adequate assembly facilities, had to be diverted after Rangoon's fall to Ceylon, where there are not? The CKDs would become junk. Anyway, speed looks more important than space saving to the Army now. Hence three-fourths of the "cubic" of many ships to Australia continues to be wasted. Last week Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade told Oakland shipyard workers that thousands of needed Army...
What the missionaries had learned had not penetrated in Washington's bureaucracy. On the red-taped road someone would decide that a shipment of pursuit ships was more useful in the U.S.; someone would decide that a shipment of machine tools could wait a month. Actual shipments were barely started when came Pearl Harbor; then the Army & Navy cut them off entirely for a while. In February the U.S. was 50% behind on its great promise...
...With Lake shipping space needed to tote some 90,000,000 tons of iron ore, there is slight chance of duplicating last year's 11,000,000-ton grain shipment on the Lakes. Eastern seaboard elevators are brim full of wheat anyway, with no ships to carry it overseas...