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...Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
Most of the water to be squeezed out of M. & O. (in receivership since 1932) will shower on Southern Railway, owner of 94% of the ailing road's common, which will be wiped out. For $7,839,500 worth of M. & O. bonds Southern gets 93? on the dollar. To pay Southern off, G. M. & N. borrowed $7,500,000 from RFC last month, will get another $2,000,000 to pay additional merger expenses...
...Recommending one big railway union...
...came with a surprise and a smash. To the hard-fighting Nazi forces commanded by his good friend Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl, Adolf Hitler had promised aid. With the "Bul" and his men holed up in a railway tunnel just six miles from the Swedish border and facing gradual annihilation by British planes and artillery, the promised help arrived suddenly and unexpectedly in the form of a major naval force including the 26,000-ton battleships Gneisenau (reported sunk in Oslo Fjord) and Scharnhorst (damaged in an exchange of shots with the Renown...
...Central America, of K. L. M. in Europe, of the U. S. Army Air Corps (which delivers engines, propellers, etc. by aerial freighter), Grover Loening set out to convince U. S. air lines they should have their own express-freight corporation. He got nowhere until July 1939, when Railway Express Agency, seeking to formalize its monopoly of the business, suddenly asked CAA for a certificate of convenience and necessity as an air carrier. Apprehensive, the air lines protested, were joined by Grover Loening in an able brief on his own hook. Result: Examiner F. A. Law recommended the application...