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...squeezed tighter last week. Stockholders in two once-bankrupt carriers saw their chances of participating in juicy war profits gurgle down the drain. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision barring any revision of ICC's plan to streamline the financial structure of the Chicago & North Western Railway. A Federal court in New Haven approved, with slight modifications, ICC's amputation of the top-heavy debt of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad...
Guesses at the rocket's length ran from 25 to 80 ft. Launching mechanisms might be as much as 200 ft. long, mounted on mobile railway trucks. The range might be 100 miles or more-certainly, if the weapon exists at all and is effective, it can reach London, 90 miles away. In essence, it would have to be nothing more than an elaboration of rocket weapons already in use by both sides. A published fact: the U.S. has at least two experts (Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina) working on rocket propulsion...
...miles to the south guns boomed. Day & night, Red cannon shelled Vitebsk, 15 miles away, and its "escape railway" to the west. From the city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...
...England has gone completely helicopter-happy. Last week the Boston, Worcester and New York Street Railway Co. (Massachusetts bus line) applied to CAB for a postwar helicopter service. Others who plan to blanket New England with helicopter service-Northeast Airlines, Greyhound Corp., Vermont Transit, White Circle Bus, the Checker Taxi Co. of Boston, and famed merchants William Filene's Sons...
From Cairo groups of 30 to 35 (60% Protestant, 35% Roman Catholic, 5% Jewish) entrain for the 350-mile railway trip (in open cars) to spend two or three days in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Says Chaplain Morrison: "It takes about twelve hard hours to see the highlights...