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...national outdoor championships in New York City June 19-20, finally got him priority to cross the Atlantic by plane. But last week, on the eve of his scheduled departure, a Stockholm news despatch cryptically announced that Gunder Hägg had left for the U.S. on a Swedish tanker...
...Japs have plenty of planes. Their great difficulty, according to Chennault, is the training of enough men to fly the planes. A secondary bottleneck is aviation fuel. Many a Japanese tanker has gone down under the assault of Allied raiders, and Chennault is praying for enough men and equipment to strike decisively at Japan's sea communications...
...plane got interception, about five Zeros or I-978. Just then the plane's turret guns jammed and it dumped its bombs over the bay and got out heading down the coast. We saw a tanker as we flew-he went crazy-he was going full speed in one direction, then he reversed and started full speed in the other direction...
...take over. Normally U.S. railroads move freight east. Last year one-third of the total volume was westward traffic which Western roads, often single-tracked, were never designed to handle. OWI statistics underline the huge new burdens that submarine warfare placed on the rails: in peacetime one tanker used to leave Gulf ports almost every hour, to supply the 17 Eastern States...
...theoretical 400,000-bbl. surplus over domestic demand under rationing. But: Eastern fuel-oil stocks must be built up (in winter demand goes well above the annual average) and military demands will probably soar. The difference between rationed consumer demand and maximum foreseeable deliveries is only a few insignificant tanker loads...