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...Hangchow, and they strove mightily to close the last gap. Chinese counter-drives did not stop them. The Japanese had nearly completed the first step in gaining control of an overland route all the way from Shanghai to Indo-China, Siam, Burma and Malaya. That would remove a great load from their transports and warships. And it would bring China perilously close to defeat...
...hundred planes with a monthly carrying load of 9,000 tons would replace the loss of the Burma Road, writes H. D. Fong, Economic Expert in the Chinese Ministry of Economics. Mr. Fong was formerly Dean of Nankai University College of Commerce...
Supplies and men are being flown across the oceans of the world and the Ferrying Command has become as important as any of the fighting outfits. It has become more vocal. Ship sinkings by Axis submarines have thrown a load on air power and the Ferrying Command is shouting for more cargo carriers...
Nearly 20% of Bessemer steel capacity was idle last week. Bessemer converters use almost no scrap, but they are indirectly affected, since the scrap shortage has put such a load on pig iron that pig iron is now a bottleneck...
Fuller Cars. Average load is perhaps five tons more than last year, ten tons more than 20 years ago. Shippers everywhere were cooperating in the drive for fuller cars. A cement shipper saved 600 cars in one month; 36 instead of 18 hogsheads of tobacco per car cut a tobacco shipper's requirements by 465 cars. By doubling the number of barrels of flour per car, a northwestern miller used 100 fewer cars. Less-than-carload-lot shipments under six tons have been entirely banned by ODT, cutting l.c.l. carloadings last month 251,950 below last years...