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...East's oil shortage suddenly grew desperate. Weather and war were the prime causes. Midwestern floods (see p. 20) washed out rails, covered highways, broke the Big Inch pipeline near Little Rock, Ark., cutting off a flow of some 200,000 bbl. per day. Meantime black-market sales were draining away thousands of barrels a day for illegal use. Passenger motoring was on the rise. Farmers were rushing to finish weather-delayed spring planting; tractors began to run dry from Maine to Virginia...
...Although the Japs apparently had a relatively small force on Attu, they had a strong position. Only 35 miles long and 20 miles wide, Attu is fiercely rugged. Its swampy beaches offer no natural cover, few places for landings. The Japs would have to be blasted from every rock and shelter...
...bold youths-James Rogers and James Roarty-waded out waist-deep, fixed a rope to the mine's horns. Up on the beach the crowd heaved-ho. Inshore wallowed the sinister machine until, suddenly, it bumped a rock. In the black roar of the explosion, Rogers and Roarty were blown to bits, 16 others were killed, 40 Ballymanus houses were damaged...
...fourth day, it was to prepare for a fresh offensive. By that time the men were so tired that, as one battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Ben Sternberg, put it, "if you'd told a man a German was on the other side of a rock he wouldn't have given a damn." But, the Colonel added, "we could have held that stinking ground...
...railroads will go broke without last year's rate rise which ICC canceled last month (TIME, April 26). Alone in all U.S. industry, the rails made a spectacular showing. Lumbering New York Central almost quadrupled its 1942 earnings, hit $16,100,000- a 14-year high. The wobbly Rock Island did likewise, pushing its net up to $8,800,000 (v. $2,300,000 last year); Denver & Rio Grande jumped from $463,000 to $2,474,000; Great Northern turned a $92,000 deficit into a juicy $1,991,000 profit. Of 22 roads to report last week...