Word: railways
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...Russian forces "along the arc of the Kursk salient" constitute a goodly portion of the Red Army's best troops and armor. Kursk itself is a valuable railway and military center. But, as the Russians indicated, Nazi Field Marshal Günther von Kluge may well be more interested in the "encirclement and annihilation" of those forces than in geographical gains...
...provide practical experience in every phase of railroad operation . . . the Southern Railway System negotiated a contract with the U.S. Government making available to the battalion that part of the Southern Railway System known as the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad, which extends from Meridian, Miss, to New Orleans, 202 miles. No charge was made by the N.O. & N.E. for its facilities, the services of its officers or employes, or the use of its property...
...delight to congratulate the officers and men of the Southern Railway System on the manner in which they have assisted the officers of the battalion and of the Military Railway Service in the training of the -th. Never has there been, in my knowledge of railroad service, a more cooperative, coordinated, unselfish and thoroughly competent help given anybody...
...Southern Railway System...
...shipping and some other items is still up to schedule does not help the Ground Forces.* But any slump in the production of small arms, heavy artillery, vehicles, etc. is vitally important to them. For its barest needs the Army requires between May and December a 20% increase in railway equipment and Army boat production. Against the day when the desperate enemy may decide to use poison gas, the Army needs a two-thirds increase in the production of gas masks and poison gas. It needs a 95% increase in radar equipment production...