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...editors expected our cover story on Senator Paul Douglas' speech ("The Fin of the Shark," Jan. 22) to bring us a heavy load of mail. They were right. But they did not expect something else that happened. The Senator's office was swamped with hundreds of letters and wires of praise for his analysis, as reported in this magazine. Some samples...
During the war years we saw the new state highway system of Mississippi, which had been protected by low load restrictions, torn to bits by unlimited Army & Navy vehicles. It was one of the sacrifices willingly paid by the people of that state in a period...
...Ohio Highway Patrol weighing station checked 6,700 trucks (not 4,000), and 203 (not 356) were in violation of the so-called legal load limit. This constitutes a 3% violation (not 9%) . . .Of the 3% accused of violations, almost all were for uncontrollable axle weights, and not for gross overweight . . . The great majority of Ohio's truck operators are opposed to all violations of the state's highway laws, regardless of their inequity...
Equipped to carry a five-ton load through a 7-ft.-deep stream, the Eager Beaver does even better. In a grueling Army test, with the driver wearing a portable lung, it went to a depth of eleven feet, cruised without a sputter on the bottom of a clear stream with fish swimming around it (see picture...
...Anderson Bridge be expected to carry its daily load in the same honest way that it did in olden times? Can it stand firm in the knowledge that a new, younger structure is trying to take its place? How ironical its dedication now seems: "May this bridge . . . be . . . a lasting suggestion that (students) should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs." Would Anderson consider the present fate of his Bridge a just reward for service "to the nation and its needs...