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...damage to the Allied war effort. His figuring gave Mr. Cutcheon an idea that by now is almost an obsession: a railroad from Duluth, Minn, to Moscow, U.S.S.R. He envisions a great flow of war freight carried by rail to Alaska and Bering Strait, across the 36-mile water gap by car ferry to Siberia, and so on by rail to Moscow and way stations. He gives that distance as about 7,000 miles and the cost of a double-track line as about $700,000,000-or one-third what the Allies are now losing annually on the seas...
...Stop-gap arrangements were being hurried. The White House approved the building of wooden barges to carry crude oil on inland waterways from Florida. A House committee approved a bill for a pipeline from Florida's west coast to Jacksonville, another for improvement of a Florida barge canal. Harold Ickes announced that a beginning had been made on relocation of two existing pipelines, which would send an additional 25,000 barrels daily to the East by July 15. But real relief would be a major transportation operation-and that...
...stand the social gap between a private and Private First Class, the man or officer who can't stand promotion, and the one who can't stand not to be promoted...
Shep Fields fills the position this year that Gene Krupa occupied at last year's spread, and it is reported that Field's new style is an experiment in bridging the gap betweens the extremes of sweet and swing. It is, however, definitely not a hybrid, but boasts a manner and instrumentation different from any other current orchestra...
...Golden Gate Park lasted five. But Mr. Mori's track will be spared close competition; it is the only race track within 25 miles of Philadelphia. Operating in midsummer, between the closing of Delaware Park and the opening of Havre de Grace, it will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even...