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...June the winter wheat crops will begin moving over the Western and Southwestern roads. If the crop movement and diversion of shipping coincide, U. S. railroads will meet their first big test of ability to handle enlarged defense needs with present equipment (see p. 81). In the meantime, most of the carriers are rushing belatedly to buy more rolling stock. Since Jan. 1, Atchison has ordered 1,700 freight cars; Burlington, 2,175; Southern Pacific...
...Cripple Creek field (said to be named for a stream in which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim...
...soon bowling along in the suburbs of Seville, trailed as usual by a police car. Then Carol tramped full down on the accelerator. Over the Andalusian and Estremaduran plains they tore madly for 100 miles. The police were left far behind and, since most telephone and telegraph lines in southwestern Spain were still out of business due to last month's hurricane, there was no way to intercept the fugitive pair. They abandoned the automobile near the frontier, proffered faked passports and entered Portugal...
...foreseeable defense traffic. But the prospect of extraordinary wheat loadings, on top of the industrial boom, has caused some Midwestern roads to look around for a hedge. Third week in February, car-loadings on the Kansas City Southern ran 25% ahead of 1940, on the Frisco and St. Louis Southwestern 20%. Others felt the abnormal rush for coal, U. S. freight item No. 1. New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio, both big coal carriers, moved more freight that week than during 1940's traffic peak in October...
...buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with cattlemen and cattle handling, went on to college (Southwestern, Columbia) and to war. He spent 1920-21 as a ranch manager, the only white man on his uncle's 200,000 acres. But his career since then has been academic: as head of the English department at Oklahoma A. & M. and, since 1925, at the University of Texas...