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...orders from the Quartermaster Corps in Washington, camp officers bought 26 miles of 60-lb. rail from the Southern Railway. Army regulations required 80-lb. rail. Said Mr. Engel: "It looks to me as though the Southern . . . unloaded some of its light rails. ... I am wondering what is going to happen should the Army ever attempt to send [over it] a trainload of mechanized equipment or railroad artillery...
...Germans' weakest point on the Bulgarian-Greek Front was supply-only one single-track railway. The R.A.F. and the Greek and Yugoslav Air Forces concentrated on supply lines, and daring Yugoslav engineers braved air attacks to impede traffic by sinking four cement-laden barges in the Danube, at the Iron Gate, where the channel is very narrow...
...before Harar was surprisingly light, and the British met almost no resistance at Harar itself. This column's mission-breaking the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad-was accomplished at week's end when the British announced they had occupied Dire Dawa, the nearest station to Harar on the railway, and that the Italians had withdrawn westward toward the capital. Main reason given by the Italians for this withdrawal was again British air activity. All week long and all along the railroad, the British bombed trains, supply depots, bridges, tracks. With their communications cut behind them, the Italians at Harar...
...United Mine Workers, who, with U. M. W. President John Lewis, was looking for a better contract in mines; George Meany, secretary-treasurer of A. F. of L., no lover of C. I. O.; and George McGregor Harrison, president of A. F. of L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, who has been a zealous worker for A. F. of L. C. I. O. harmony...
When Federal agents nabbed Martin Durkin (a pioneer Dillinger) and his petite moll in a Pullman drawing room, Carson arranged with the Wabash Railway for a prairie train stop, rushed reporters and photographers to the secret rendezvous by plane (another pioneer Carson stunt). By the time the Durkin train reached Chicago the Herald & Examiner was on the street with four pages of Durkin pictures. But that was only a start for his Durkin scoop. In the excited hubbub at Union Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi...