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Every 15 'minutes a plane operated by the Army's indefatigable Air Transport Command lumbers free of the earth and begins a trans-Pacific flight. In one recent eight-day period these planes hauled 18.4 million lbs. of cargo over A.T.C.'s 42,000-mile Pacific airways. Passenger and cargo volume is three times that of a year...
Selective Moving. U.S. divisions will leave much of their equipment where it is to save time and precious cargo space. Galoshes, snowpacks, etc., useful in Europe, are no good in the Pacific. Tanks, jeeps, trucks, bulldozers, steam engines and countless items of heavy equipment worn with use will not be worth the space needed to ship them. The same goes for small arms, which wear rapidly in combat and will mostly be left behind. The one exception will be heavy equipment which is hard to replace (e.g., big guns...
Early last week Halifax officers of the U.S. War Shipping Administration decided to try to save what cargo was still aboard and recover what had been removed. Newspaper advertisements asked salvagers to bring in their "take," accept U.S. cash awards. Salvaging firms and stevedoring companies went to work...
Heavy Seas at Zero. All the heavy deck cargo and 50,000 cases from below deck were salvaged. Even when stiff winds blew the temperature down to zero, the men swarmed over the ice-covered wreck, which threatened to break...
...week's end cargo valued at $1,000,000 had been landed. How much salvage money the U.S. would eventually pay was anybody's guess, but fishermen thought it would come close to $100,000. Meanwhile, police searched the countryside, seized thousands of dollars worth of material hidden in homes and fish sheds. No one was arrested at once, but Canadian officials considered prosecution under customs laws...