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...Lean. The CAC officers fight a losing battle with combat commanders for transportation to move refugee supplies. Recently, when 17 tiny Japanese railway cars loaded with refugee supplies started north from Pusan, CAC officers almost danced...
Trains Can Do It. To see if trains can compete with buses, planes and autos on short runs by cutting fares and giving better service, the Great Northern Railway slashed fares on its Seattle-Vancouver run by 32% about a year ago. The new rate of 1.5? per passenger-mile ($5.25 for a round-trip ticket) was 10% lower than bus fare. After bus companies also cut fares, Great Northern rolled out two brand-new, speedy diesel "Internationals" which lowered the train trip within a hairbreadth of plane time (including travel to and from the airport). Last week, Great Northern...
...last week the President's chief counsel, Charles Murphy, tramped patiently from meetings with the United Labor Policy Committee (the bosses of C.I.O., A.F.L., the railway and machinist unions) to the offices of Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Stabilizer Eric Johnston, to the White House, to Blair House and back again. Labor still demanded representation on the Administration's top policymaking level. That it would undoubtedly get. But labor also still clung stubbornly to another point on which its three delegates had been outvoted on the stabilization board...
Elsewhere the authorities found other caches: under an electric crane in Turin's Fiat steel mill, 29 light machine guns and other arms; in a field near the Milan railway line, three Sten and five Bren guns, 80 grenades, etc.; in a zinc coffin buried under the sports field of an auto plant near Milan, one mortar, one small antiaircraft gun, three Bren guns...
Labor, barred from strategic positions in a major production drive, was determined to reach for power before it was too late. Labor's bosses-A.F.L., C.I.O. and railway unions, gathered under a jerry-built roof called the United Labor Policy Committee-had picked the wage board as the arena for the showdown fight...