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Just before dawn the trawler North Star, inbound for Boston with a load of fish, caught sight of the Mary E. O'Hara's masts. Five of the crew were still hanging on. One man slipped off even as the North Star hove to alongside, but he was fished out alive. Another, frozen to his perch, had to be pried loose...
...stored away in the Vatican for over half a century. If the Papal troops were ever military, they are now wholly demilitarized. Each muzzle-loader, now so rusty it would be hazardous to fire it, requires two Palatine Guards to work it, one to fire it, the other to load...
Many a trucker has wondered how much time & money he could save if his firm were big enough to buy tires and gasoline in bulk, carry a 100% pay load on all trips, act as its own insurance company. In 1939 a corporation called The Transport Co. was organized to find out. Transport's plan: to buy up 48 trucking and truck renting firms (operating over 10,000 vehicles in 18 Eastern and Southern States), consolidate them into the nation's first really big motorized freight system...
...lowest from 750 feet), will make many more, working their jumping altitude down to 300. This week, husky Major Miley was ready to go back to his outfit from the post hospital where he had been laid up with a fractured shoulder (from jumping with an 80-lb. load of equipment), hoped that he would have his whole outfit qualified as six-jumpers by spring. Trained to pack and maintain their own 'chutes, Benning's jumpers go over the side armed, like the Germans, with pistol and a bag of grenades. The rest of their fighting equipment, from...
From the first, the railroads insisted they could handle any traffic load the defense boom might produce. When Burlington's Ralph Budd joined the Defense Advisory Commission, he did not seem worried either. In July, when traffic had risen to over 700,000 carloadings a week. Commissioner Budd urged the roads to fix up their bad-order cars, keep them below 6%. The Administration wanted him to force orders for 100,000 new cars at once, 500,000 by 1942. Mr. Budd preferred not to interfere with rail managements...