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Some 600 trolley and bus-line operators went to Chicago for an emergency conference of the American Transit Association last week. The emergency: too much business. How much too much, they heard from beetle-browed, mustachioed A.T.A. Managing Director Charles Gordon, who gave them some horrendous estimates for the next two years...
...reinforcements to his Afrika Korps and put him back on the offensive. By bombing Malta, the Axis had probably rendered ineffective any R.A.F. bombing operations from the island. As a result, Axis shipping has an even chance of getting to Tripoli and Tunis unbombed, either at base or in transit...
...great help was a remarkable new foreign-body detector which Dr. Moorhead had with him. It was invented by Samuel Berman, a research engineer in the New York City Transit Department. The cigar-sized instrument works on the principle of a radio tube; when held over a wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time...
...orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total war backlog to nearly $2 billions. President Charles E. Wilson said G.M. could & would handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry 20 billion. > The Northwest's third largest industry after lumber and fishing is tourists. Foreseeing a poor year, Oregon last week canceled its $100,000 tourist advertising budget, and the unexpended balance of Washington's quarter-million appropriation...
...float, and by God they'll get there." A modest man, Jerry Land never adds that you couldn't say as much for some of the strange and wonderful aggregation of emergency merchantmen of World War I. There were ships of green wood that seasoned in transit, and took water with seams agape in seas like a mill-pond...