Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardest to regulate will be the 1,047,000 trucks owned by farmers or leased to carry farm products. Without trucks many farm crops could not get to market, but many truck loads of farm products bypass local markets and rail terminals, travel hundreds of miles to save a few cents' freight, and return empty...
...Venezuela and Colombia, Standard has several air ambulances to whisk emergency cases from the field to hospitals. Between Barranca and El Centro, Colombia, it operates a unique rail ambulance...
...Gulf. At the military worst, it would be to Basra that the Tenth Army would retire, for with Basra would go the Persian Gulf, and its access to South Africa, the South Atlantic, the U.S. and Britain. The battle for the bridge would first be a battle for overland rail and highway routes from Basra through Bagdad to Persia, the Caspian and Russia; then, at the blackest last, for the city itself. At such a juncture, the loss of Basra and the Gulf would be even worse than the loss of Suez...
...Secretary Stimson announced that in the nine months since Pearl Harbor more than 6,500,000 soldiers have been moved by rail in the U.S.-compared with 1,916,417 in the first nine months of U.S. participation in World War I. In June a million moved by rail. The Army is going somewhere...
...solvent U.S. railroads are now earning their fixed charges better than two and a half times over, but some of their bonds are still selling at discounts up to 40%. On March 2, to be exact, some $5,000,000,000 of nonbankruptcy rail bonds had a market value of about...