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Eugene Crouse, champion cornhusker who husked 3300 pounds in eighty minutes--a world's record. Grundy County, Iowa

Eugene Crouse, champion cornhusker who husked 3300 pounds in eighty mi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Tankers. Tankers left Gulf points for the Eastern seaboard at the rate of one every eighty minutes. Loading dock hoses like these serve a fleet of 300 vessels. An average tanker carries as much oil as 280 railroad tank cars, requiring four trains, four locomotives. Ships could haul oil for one cent a barrel as against necessary railroad rates of four cents. Low marine rates left no incentive for railroads or pipelines to equip themselves for transporting Eastern petroleum requirements

Tankers. Tankers left Gulf points for the Eastern seaboard at the rate...

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