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Then the President moved on to Ogdensburg to meet his old friend William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. They met in the railway car Roald Amundsen in the Rome Yard track at Ogdensburg, while the sun beat down unmercifully outside. Only Secretary of War Stimson witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort...
...Presidential special hauled out of the ingrown Ogdensburg Yards-the day before he had spotted two huge gasoline storage tanks between the train and the river. It was pulled to a safe, secluded, heavily guarded siding at Heuvelton, N. Y., where there were neither tanks nor moving railway traffic...
Dallas' opportunity was an ICC decision three weeks ago permitting 804-mile Colorado & Southern Railway, which operates from Orin, Wyo. to Texline on the Texas border by way of Denver, to lease 902-mile Fort Worth & Denver City Railway, which runs from Dallas to Texline via Fort Worth, Wichita Falls and Amarillo. Big Burlington Lines control C. & S., which controls F. W. & D. C. Reason for the move was an estimated saving of $250,000 yearly by joint operation. But it meant the removal of F. W. & D. C.'s general offices from Fort Worth to Denver...
...occupation of Indo-China-without a single test of the Mandel defenses. "Traffic Examiners" swarmed into the country in mufti, in Army khaki and Navy blue, piloting airplanes and driving little brown automobiles. They proceeded to chart airports, survey highways, estimate the troop traffic which the Haiphong-Kunming railway might carry if Indo-China should by any chance allow troops to cross her territory. Merchants arrived lugging the Oriental equivalents of carpetbags. Three destroyers lay off the port of Haiphong. A large fleet, including no less than 18 troop transports, sped South Seawards from Formosa, destination unknown but possibly...
...chief penetrator, Major General Issaku Nishihara, flew home to Tokyo to report to his superiors, and his impetuous second-in-command, an angry colonel named Kenryo Sato, was reported to have made new demands: 1 ) Japan should be allowed to move troops into China by the Indo-Chinese railway; 2) Japanese naval planes and vessels should get port facilities at Haiphong; 3) all work on the French defenses should cease at once. If only the first demand were granted, Japan would probably be able to force a Japanese peace on China...