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Since the beginning of the war, Britain's soldiers have doggedly caroled two onetime U.S. favorites, the Beer Barrel Polka and South of the Border. But lately a British song from World War I, Bless 'Em All, has been dusted off, is sung with a will by Britons of all classes. In waltz time, it goes...
...Scores of highway, rivers & harbors, waterworks and pension pork-barrel bills...
Congress, the Treasury and the President were now off in a veritable spray of buck-passing. On Capitol Hill happy members rolled out the pork barrel, singing a song of defense. The House Rivers & Harbors Committee, traditional Congressional gravy boat (composed of members who never let their right hands know what their lefts are doing), last week dusted off the defunct old $150,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, named it a defense project, urged an authorization. Other measures were...
...speech you heard on the radio last night may be the last major declaration of American policy in this war. Within the United States it narrows the field of democratic discussion, and weakens the position of our democratic machinery: the Congress, the meeting hall, yes, even the cracker barrel. Decisions are up to the President how: "Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" are pledged. Capital and labor are to submit to the President's boards; all must play their part, and no one must ever doubt in our ability...
Only alternatives to the tanker haul are railroads and pipelines. But railroad tank cars, used mostly for refined products, number only 140,000 for the whole U.S., carry only 250 barrels a car, and charge a rate many times as high as the cost by tanker. Admittedly, they can't fill the hole. The oil companies, which own most of the pipelines anyway, have therefore turned to pipelines. To avert exhaustion of its eastern stocks, Standard of New Jersey last week started pumping 27,500 barrels of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana crude a day via Tulsa and southern Illinois...