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...people of serious blows ahead, called it "a national disaster." Hundreds of factories closed; many hundreds more were about to shut down for lack of coal or materials. Partial paralysis was creeping over the rail lines. Belatedly, drastic measures were applied. The Government declared a rail freight and express embargo, effective May 10, on all shipments except food, fuel and a few other essentials. Most industries could no longer ship or receive materials. Rail lines were ordered to curtail passenger service by half, effective May 15. Several lines, close to the bottom of their coal piles, took off trains...
...this, and satisfied that Kennedy's story had too many details to be suspect, A.P. Assistant General Manager Alan Gould gave the go-ahead. Then the A.P. sat back, waiting for the U.P., I.N.S. and SHAEF to catch up. Instead SHAEF called the story unauthorized, clamped a news embargo...
...trouble had been on its way ever since December, when zero weather and blizzards and a manpower shortage first snarled up the overloaded railroads and disrupted fuel deliveries. The three-day embargo, clamped on all non-Government freight in the East, had helped (TIME, Feb. 5). But it was not enough. Last week, the Office of Defense Transportation clamped on another, this time for four days. Coal was the only civilian freight that could be moved...
...week's cold wave sent temperatures to 18° below zero at Portland, Me., to 16° below at Binghamton, N.Y., the Association of American Railroads decided it was time for drastic action. With the approval of the Office of Defense Transportation, A.A.R. clamped a tight three-day embargo on all non-Government freight moving east of Lake Michigan and north of the Chesapeake and Ohio lines in Virginia...
More Snow & Ice? Whether the 72-hour embargo had given the railroads time enough to dig themselves out of their trouble was still a question this week. Long trains of empties were snaking across the bleak landscape, headed away from the congested terminals. Dozens of passenger trains were canceled, and their high-wheeled engines ignobly coupled to strings of empty boxcars. By week's end the roads hoped to have caught up again, unless...