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...party started up the ridge last summer and a difficult, though not impassable road opened up leading to the highest peak of the range, which is only 10,000 feet lower that Mt. Everest...
According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...
...West Coast used to get much of its steel through the Canal, may have to choose between steel and coal in the peak carloading period. More and more aid-to-Russia (and China) will have to move westward by rail...
...week railroads, Government men and shippers held their breath to see if the railroads would squeak through October. At best, most of them expected some regional dislocations, brief but perhaps acute, and no one liked to think about the fall of 1942. Ralph Budd had estimated that the 1942 peak would require 160,000 more freight cars than there are now (other estimates went as high as 370,000 new cars). With or without a steel shortage, 160,000 is more new freight cars than have been built in any year since...
...A.A.R., proud of the steady long-term rise in efficiency of railroad operations, insists that the 1929 traffic peak could now be handled with 350,000 fewer cars. But if 1929's peak freight levels (1,200,000 cars a week) have to be handled again, that still leaves 250,000 cars for still more operational efficiency to replace...