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This was only one of Roger Lapham's efforts to get San Francisco voters to approve the city's purchase of the ancient Market Street Railway, which for long years has run outmoded cars up & down Market Street, competing against municipally owned cars. The four sets of tracks gave San Francisco a famed traffic hazard. But four times the voters had turned down the purchase proposal...
Capsule Week. The week's operations were a capsule history of the whole air war on Germany. Industries, aircraft plants, airfields, synthetic oil plants, coastal installations, railway junctions and freight yards were combed over, in attacks from the Channel to the far Baltic coast...
Target: Roadbeds. On the map of battle, Tokyo's first objective now be gan to assume shape: full control of the Peiping-Hankow railway. In 1938, the Chinese breached the Yellow river dikes, kept the enemy from this prize; last week, Japanese columns driving from north and south seemed to be close to attaining...
Little remained of that railway but the pitted roadbed; the rails had been removed by the cautious Chinese. But intelligence reports now showed that the Japanese had dismantled other, less useful railroads, had carted the rails to Sinyang-presumably to be used in retracking the wrecked sections...
...longer routing would have diverted the freight to a section of the Southern Railway built years ago under a Government land grant. Under land grants made in 1850 and thereafter, the Government subsidized southern and western railroad-building by giving builders a total of 132 million acres of land-7,500 acres of adjacent land for every mile of track they laid. In return the railroads granted the Government, in perpetuity, a 50% reduction in rates for transportation of military supplies and troops...