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...efficient machine was entrusted three weeks ago to a good general, Klimenti Voroshilov, and a not-so-good one, Semion Budenny. Last week Marshal Voroshilov reached Russia's auxiliary capital at Samara to organize his great new Army. And as he traveled east to the rear, he passed trainload after planeload of special winter troops, trained since the Finnish war in cold-weather war fare. There were said to be 750,000 of them, of which some 200,000 were reported to have arrived at Moscow...
...costs. He also knows that more than half the increased traffic now in sight would move from south to north and from west to east-the directions in which the costly movement of empty freight cars is now heaviest. Meanwhile the railroads have been experimenting with low rates for trainload hauls. Moreover, railroad net operating income has risen sharply this year. If Henderson is to prevent price increases, he will have to get power from Congress to find some way of putting through reduced freight rates for shipments diverted from water transportation; or else he will have to make...
...rail from the Southern Railway. Army regulations required 80-lb. rail. Said Mr. Engel: "It looks to me as though the Southern . . . unloaded some of its light rails. ... I am wondering what is going to happen should the Army ever attempt to send [over it] a trainload of mechanized equipment or railroad artillery...
...trainload of German prisoners chugged north through the Laurentians from Montreal, one day last week. One of them, a jug-eared, wiry young man, kept his nose pressed against the windowpane, his eyes on the bleak Canadian countryside. Baron. Franz von Werra, pursuit pilot with a score of 14 British planes, was a more valuable cog in the Reich's war machine than most of his fellows on the train. And he intended to get back where he belonged...
With 20 days in which to answer it, President Hal Collins swung into action last week, put lawyers to work drafting a reply, proposed to take a "trainload" of cured Crazy customers to Washington to back his claim. Said he: "We'd just as soon comply with some of the commission's demands, but those that would put us out of business we're going to answer...