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With the old electric motors and batteries (which accounted for about one-sixth of a submarine's weight) eliminated, the U-boat is more maneuverable, and with the space gained, the torpedo load can be increased, the cruising range stepped up. Even some of the smaller U-boats now have ranges up to 12,000 miles. They carry smaller torpedo tubes, allowing standardization of torpedo manufacture for aircraft, motor torpedo boats and submarines...
...England will load 18.4% fewer cars. This reflects the cut in l.c.l. loadings, for most New England shipments are small in size...
...everybody wants to go somewhere for the Fourth of July weekend, no railroadman dares to think of the mess. And they all dread the effect on their future business, since it would underline the popular misconception that the roads cannot handle their normal passenger load on top of the gargantuan troop movements (2,500,000 troops in sleepers alone in five months) they have to handle first...
Next steps will probably be for Johnston to get together with the heads of C.I..O. and A.F. of L., in the hope that together they can work out a labor stabilization formula that all can approve. If they can, it will take a great load of dissension off the shoulders of the President...
...Meantime, other airline-operated cargo planes regularly shuttle between 120 Army air bases in the U.S. Their load: troops, complete jeeps, tank parts, light field guns, aircraft engines, other military items...