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...this time they could not spread the job evenly over a network of eastern roads. The enormous load had to be carried by the seven thin western lines which finger out from the midwest, snake through the high, twisting passes of the Rockies and drop down from the high sierra to the key ports of the West Coast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland...
There was chanting of the Carmagnole. There were shouts of "To the lamppost." France's first Bastille Day since liberation brought Parisians into the streets for snake-dancing on the boulevards, parades, surreptitious fireworks (firecrackers are officially banned). But the Bastille Day gaiety was less spontaneous than official. Said one French spectator: "It's all very well to show [the people] a military spectacle, but they are still worried about food...
...Like the snake which swallows a frog as big as itself, Aviation Corp. last week contracted to pay $15,000,000 for a 64% interest in Crosley Corp. (Crosley's 1944 earnings of $3,300,000 exceeded AVCO's by nearly $200,000.) This big mouthful was the outward sign that two aggressive businessmen, in their different ways, were following the maxim "In time of war prepare for peace...
...Freights. The mountains of westbound scheduled freight for war theaters are a bigger problem than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will be loaded to capacity. A hot box, or a derailment on a single track grade up from the Great Plains, will call for fast rerouting of freight flowing through the rail-terminal bottlenecks at Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans...
...Cowles noted that the English sparrow apparently mates only during the cool early morning hours when its body temperature drops below normal. The garter snake rarely breeds in summer...