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...better kept than any other road's in the U.S., it rebuilt hundreds of miles of roadbed. For the steep grades over the Great Divide it developed the world's biggest locomotive (4-8-8-4), the 132-ft. "Big Boy," and bought 25 of them. The smartest trick of all was to install centralized traffic control on nearly 400 miles of U.P.'s single track, which gave it many of the advantages of double track. The whole 302 miles between Daggett, Calif, and Caliente, Nev. is now controlled by one operator in Las Vegas, sitting behind...
...deadened French Riviera, pre-war Europe's smartest playspot for the international set, has come back to life as the "United States Riviera Rest Area" for war-weary U.S. soldiers. The Sixth Army Group started the revival last October. By last week, 6,000 G.I.s a week were flocking into 42 luxury hotels near the sunny sands at Nice. Shortening U.S.R.R.A. to "Heaven," they pronounced it the best thing the U.S. Army ever...
...America it is good manners to praise anything you like, whether it is the food, the furniture or the view from the window. Dress your smartest for the first interviews, and remember that except in the smallest villages lipstick is expected...
Last week the smartest shops were busier than in months. A good 90% of the customers were G.I.s who wore on their sleeves the patches of a dozen famous divisions. On leave from the front, they were buying Easter presents for home...
Smart Blast. By last week it was clear that the Germans had made perhaps their smartest move in their play for time by blasting the floodgates of the Schwammenauel dam. The Roer, usually only 75 feet wide and knee-deep, at some points was more than 1,000 feet of brown water spilled over forested flatlands. At others it was a raging, narrow torrent...