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...before dark would not be lost again in the morning, by getting them up before dawn. Clarence Lea explained: home consumption, morning or night, is of secondary importance; the peak consumption of power is caused by factories and offices between 5 and 7 p.m. By cutting down on this load, the Administration hopes to save 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year-enough juice to produce over 70,000,000 Ib. of much-needed aluminum for planes...
...sloppiness is misleading. For his size, this man-weapon carries an extraordinary amount of equipment. His .25-caliber rifle or machine gun is light and accurate to 1,000 yards. He can carry 400 rounds of its little bullets, twice as many as the load of larger bullets the larger U.S. trooper totes. He carries a bayonet, a canteen, a helmet with a little gold star on it. He carries five days' rations of rice and sardines, and he tends his own cooking...
...Firmest prediction of all was made by U.S. rail shippers, whose National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards last week told the railroads how many cars they expect to load in the next three months. The number: 6,054,328 cars, 8.1% more than in 1941's first quarter. This means the greatest ton-mile movement in railroad history. (S.A.B. forecasts have been accurate within less than 1% of actual loadings for the past two years.) Biggest increase over 1941 will be shown by grain loadings, especially in the Northwest (see map). Truck and auto loadings (estimated for January only...
Colonel Stanley's steel-and-rubber bridge carries a heavier load than old-style pontoons, has fewer parts, packs into five-sixths the space. Its pontoons are inflated to a pressure of only one pound to the square inch, are slow to collapse when punctured...
...climbing in & out of trucks, they get an idea how to load troops comfortably, estimate loading capacities. To teach them how to judge marching speed, Colonel Bell makes them hoof for miles. Functions are rotated every day, so that everybody gets a crack at every...