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...offensive was probably timed to coincide with an ultimatum to Germany's people to overthrow their government and end the bombing (see p. 32). The morale of Berliners and Germans was as much the R.A.F.'s target as the sprawling fac tories, Government offices and railway communications of their capital. The Battle of Berlin will continue, said the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, "as opportunity serves and cir cumstances dictate until the heart of Nazi Germany ceases to beat...
...boom was to see if the traffic would bear a 20% increase in passenger fares. They found out: the U.S. automobile and bus industries, then in swaddling clothes, grew up almost overnight, while the railroads started down the long toboggan toward the almost bottomless pit of 1932.* Last week Railway Age, in its annual Passenger Progress issue, published a survey of what railroad executives propose to do for the postwar passenger this time. Their "practically unanimous opinion...
...last war, they are in a position to mean what they say. By the end of next year according to an Investment Bankers' Association estimate, railroad funded debt will be down to $8 billions, almost a third less than in 1932, when fixed charges were 30% higher than railway operating income. With this new financial freedom of action assured, airlines and bus lines full of plans for a postwar passenger boom could well ponder the warning words ot the jubilant railroad man who told Railway Age last week: "Our competitors who are anticipating a walkover in taking traffic from...
...Though passenger revenues normally amount to only 10% or railway gross on the average, to many a road they represent the difference between profit & loss
...Cherkassy direction our troops . . . together with guerrillas . . . struck an unexpected blow. . . . In October several guerrilla detachments in the Tarnopol region blew up 33 enemy troop trains, two armored trains and a railway bridge. . . . At the beginning of November the Germans sent out a large punitive expedition against one of the guerrilla detachments. In a two-day engagement the Soviet patriots wiped out more than 100 enemy officers and men and forced the enemy to retreat...