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Meanwhile the ferries, fitted out with such conveniences as breakfast bars, chugged up & down the Willamette River with an average 5% load. The Boilermakers' Union refused to "force" its members to use this Government-provided transportation. The Kaiser Co. said nothing, for fear of losing workers. The Maritime Commission brought no pressure on unions, company, or the ration boards. Tires and gasoline burned...
...railroads needed 3,200 more men at once to 1) get the freight to the piers, 2) get the boxcars moving west for another load. Off on a manhunt went the War Manpower Commission and Railroad Retirement Board. Said WMC's Major Howard J. Lepper: "This is no sissy job. It calls for husky workers with a stiff backbone and plenty of muscle. But I'll even take women provided they have plenty of beef...
...able-bodied must stay behind; the Gripsholm's passengers this time will be the aged, the ill, 300 children. They will require care: besides its load of toys for the children, the Gripsholm will carry four doctors, eight nurses...
...small as it was compared to the invasion of Sicily, required months of preparation. The Allies were able to use 3,267 bottoms in the Mediterranean. The Navy had to make the best of a few score preparing for the Munda operation, shuttling them back & forth to move a load that could have been transported in one haul by a big merchant fleet. Concluded Correspondent Norton-Taylor...
Last week the War Department took the first comprehensive step to help indus try to get out from under its terrifying load when the time comes. It established an overall policy to cover termination of all Army contracts. It also set up simple, workable regulations to implement it. The policy will not have to wait until war's end to be tested. It is being tested now; already contract cancellations and production cutbacks caused by the changing needs of war, or oversupply, total billions...