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...first days of the invasion Allied engineers struggled with antiquated French locomotives which huffed & puffed along the dilapidated, single-track railway which starts at Casablanca, touches Algiers and runs on to Tunis. With U.S. rolling stock, U.S. railroad men were able to double the road's capacity...
...Army's capture of Rzhev last week freed the 160-mile railway between Velikie Luki and Moscow. Soviet engineers immediately began to broaden the gauge to the Russian size. For the Germans this "axle war" had involved moving the wheels of captured rolling stock slightly toward the center of the axle. The Russians are now having to return the wheels to the ends of the axle...
...most urgent reason for a northerly offensive-and a fact which had been all but forgotten in the glad heat of victory in the south-was that the Germans on the central front were still less than 125 miles from Moscow. At Gzhatsk, on the Moscow-Smolensk railway, the Germans reported one attack. The Russians had been intermittently assaulting the Germans' powerfully defended Smolensk-Rzhev-Vyazma triangle since last summer, they had stepped up the assaults at the start of the winter drives-yet the Germans still held a position which could be the starting point of another stab...
Slowdown for Knockout. A substantial section of the Luftwaffe has been pinned in Western Europe. The catalogue of German factories, shipyards, railway centers and power plants smashed by the R.A.F. is impressive. Damage to morale in such often-visited cities as Hamburg, Bremen and Cologne must have been severe. Still Germany fights...
Next up was newly elected Chesapeake & Ohio Railway President Carl Elbridge Newton, who is a friend of Robert Ralph Young (TIME, Dec. 28), another booster of competitive bidding, and whose road owns 2% of Erie's common stock. Roared he: "I insist the Erie buy its financing on the same prudent basis as it buys its railroad equipment-that is, to benefit its stockholders rather than any selected seller. . . ." Warned Railroader Newton: "I would be reluctant to bring legal action . . . [but] I shall protect the interests...