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...Kuecker gave some figures to help explain this dismal situation. Minimum supplies and equipment for each U.S. soldier landed abroad weigh 15 tons. A Liberty ship loads about 9,000 tons of cargo, or enough for about 600 men. A round-trip Pacific voyage takes 80-odd days...
George Emlen Roosevelt, 54-year-old Manhattan yachtsman and investment banker, cousin of the President, has found a personal solution for the housing shortage in Washington. On business visits to the Capital, he buys a round-trip ticket so that he cannot be ejected from Union Station, sleeps there curled up on a bench...
Sail, Steam, Wings. If the Atlantic Ferry really becomes routine and, as some pilots think, foreshadows peacetime round-trip flights at $150 a passenger, one of the men to thank will be the son of a British Army Colonel, Bowhill of Bowhill from the Scottish Border, who transferred his love from square-riggers to the awkward skyships...
...Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge, who recently called all out-of-State professors in Georgian universities "foreigners," the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Ala. sent a fancy, gold-sealed, round-trip "passport" certifying him as "a free citizen . . . permitted to enter the State of Alabama...
...four-engined Clippers for delivery in 1942-43. The trade describes them as high-speed, 80-passenger, 40-ton Lockheed landplanes. Costing at least $866,000 each, these planes will make the New York-London or Lisbon run in ten to twelve hours, give the U.S. daily 24-hour round-trip air service...