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Tanks. The President's 1942 figure is only a few thousand above the War Department's old goal of about 40,000 units. The snag: transmissions and engines. But last week farm-equipment makers were ready to take on big transmission orders. Another idea: hitch two 125-h.p. automobile engines (which can be made by the hundreds) to form one 250-h.p. tank engine...
...concrete highways and concrete-and-steel bridges made the ferry obsolescent. When the Mid-Hudson Bridge was opened in 1930, the Poughkeepsie ferry, which once had three boats in constant service, hit its fatal snag. By undercutting the bridge toll (25? to 50?), it managed to keep one boat going. Last week, when the bridge toll came down to 35?, the line gave up. On the old Brinckerhoff, lashed to the landing, the fires went dead...
...Delaware-whose easy incorporation laws snag many an out-of-state firm-has suffered too. Through Dec. 1 incorporations totaled 1,200 against 1,354 last year...
When John Calhoun became Secretary of War, Shreve got his chance. While jeering onlookers hooted, the snag boat "drove head on at a massive 'planter' (half submerged tree). There was a booming impact and crash. It seemed to the onlookers that the boat must be shattered to pieces. But there it was, still intact, and the huge tree toppling into the water. A spontaneous cheer went up. . . ." "By the end of 1830, the age-old drowned forests had vanished from the Mississippi...
...impossible." For 160 miles, it was blocked by a mass of ancient driftwood called the Great Raft- "so solid in places that a man could ride across it on horseback. Except for the Raft, the Red River would be navigable for a thousand miles." But Henry Shreve and his snag boat, amid bitter wrangling, red tape, lack of money, deaths from boiler explosions and cholera, cleared the Great Raft and opened the Red River...